Queering education in the Deep South / Edited by Kamden K. Strunk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Strunk, Kamden K., editor.

Series:

Research in queer studies.

Research in queer studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality and education--Southern States.

Homosexuality and education.

Gender identity in education--Southern States.

Gender identity in education.

Sexual minorities in higher education--Southern States.

Sexual minorities in higher education.

LGBTQ+ people.

LGBTQ+ students.

Queer studies.

Southern States--Social conditions.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (195 pages).

Place of Publication:

Charlotte, NC : Information Ages Publishing, Inc., [2018]

Summary:

"This volume explores education in the Deep South, with a focus on LGBTQ students and educators, and on queer theoretical perspectives in education. The topics in this volume include teaching LGBTQ issues and queer studies in the Deep South, educational policy and practice in the Deep South as related to queer issues, and efforts to introduce queer literature to libraries and queer collections to archives. Authors in this volume examine what realities exist in education in the U.S. South currently, and what possibilities might be imagined in the future" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

PART 1: Teaching Queer Studies and LGBTQ issues

We're in the Freaking Bible Belt: A Narrative Analysis of the Complexities of Addressing LGBTQ Topics while Teaching in the Deep South / Stephanie Anne Shelton

No Matter What Personal Feelings We Have: Exploring the Tension Between Preservice Teachers' Personal Ideologies About and Professional Responsibilities for LGBTQ Students / Carey E. Andrzejewski, Hannah Carson Baggett, and Rashida E. Askia

Disturbing Identities and Messy Entanglements: Teaching Queer Theory in the American South / Heather Palmer

PART 2: Queering Educational Policy and Practice

Queering the University: The Evolution of LGBTQ Inclusivity at AI? University in the Deep South, 1950-2016 / Brittney L. Beck, Jennifer Jones, Wolfgang Sigmund, and Peter Westmoreland

Safe Schools Coalitions in the Deep South: Exploring Stories of Formation, Diversity, and Communication / Sarah R. Young, Nghi Phan, Evan Lowe, Ian Fields Stewart, and Christopher Rapisarda

Stonewalled at Every Level: Exploring the Experiences of College Student Affairs Administrators Advocating for Change in the Deep South / Georgianna L. Martin and Christopher Broadhurst

Making Sense of Contradictions in Deep South Schooling: Queer Potentialities and Possibilities / Andrea Beall and Kamden K. Strunk

From Football to Lecture Hallk: LGBTQ Perceptions of Campus Climate / Dexter Bracken, L. J. Winters, and Emalee J. W. Quickel

PART 3: Queering Literature, Libraries, and Archives

Archiving the Kings & Queen City: Creating AI? Queer Archive in Charlotte North Carolina / Joshua Burford

The LGBT+ Archives Project of Louisiana: A Community Organizing Success Story / Frank Perez

It Takes Three to Tango: Reading, Teaching, and Challenging Queer Literature in the South / Khirsten Doolan and Allison Rittmayer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

ISBN:

1-64113-247-7