Learning while Black and queer : understanding the educational experiences of Black LGBTQ+ youth / Ed Brockenbrough.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brockenbrough, Edward, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Youth, Black--Education--United States.

Youth, Black.

Sexual minorities--Education--United States.

Sexual minorities.

Students, Black--United States.

Students, Black.

Teaching--Social aspects--United States.

Teaching.

Safe spaces--United States.

Safe spaces.

Curriculum change--United States.

Curriculum change.

Health education (Secondary)--United States.

Health education (Secondary).

Social justice and education--United States.

Social justice and education.

LGBTQ+ people.

Physical Description:

178 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard Education Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Research-based guidance for educators, teacher educators, and community learning partners to effectively support LGBTQIA+ students of color. In Learning While Black and Queer, Ed Brockenbrough outlines common obstacles to educational equity for Black youth in the LGBTQ+ community and suggests ways for educators to foster the success of Black queer students. This compassionate and actionable work advances what Brockenbrough calls a queerly responsive pedagogy, which addresses the nuances of LGBTQ+ youths' learning experiences in ways that other assets-based approaches, including culturally responsive and sustaining pedagogies, do not. Providing evidence-based recommendations for creating educational spaces and school cultures that promote safety and belonging, Brockenbrough draws on recent empirical studies of urban Black youths aged fourteen to twenty-four who identify as LGBTQ+, as well as personal accounts of Black queer individuals and his own experiences as a secondary school teacher and teacher educator. Among other suggestions, he advocates the adoption of a queer-inclusive curriculum that covers health and sexuality, queer-affirming classrooms, and access to peer and intergenerational kinship networks for Black queer students. He implores educators to reject the deficit narrative of queer victimhood and instead cultivate youth agency. He shows how Black queer resistant capital can be used to confront systemic oppressions such as anti-Blackness, anti-queerness, and cisheteronormativity in educational environments. The guidance offered in this work gives educators in schools and community-based organizations ways to advocate for educational and social justice with and for Black queer youth"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Lesbian Safer Sex 101: An Introduction to Learning While Black and Queer

Queerly Responsive Pedagogy: Insights and Implications for Supporting Queer Youth of Color

Black Queer Resistant Capital

Trans Fugitivity in a Black Queer Youth Space: Thinking Beyond Safety

Queerly Responsive Sex Education for Young Black Queer Males

A Pedagogy of the Closet

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781682539071

1682539075

OCLC:

1417197145