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Gendered Violences and Queer of Color Critiques in Educational Spaces: Remembering Sakia, Carl, and Jaheem

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Anti-black; Anti-normative; Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover; Difference; Gender; Genderqueer: Homophobia; Nonnormative; “Others”; Performance; Queer; Sakia Gunn; Transphobia

Introduction

Queer of color (QOC) critique arises from a field outside of education. However as recent educational studies and some scholars (see Brockenbrough 2015; Coloma 2013; Cruz 2013; McCready 2013; Pritchard 2013) in the field have noted, queer of color critique offers useful theoretical insights and tools to enhance educational research practices. The aim of this text is twofold: to offer an overview of queer of color critique and provide relevant connections between QOC critique and education broadly defined. To do so this text uses the figures of Sakia Gunn, Carl Joseph Walker Hoover and Jaheem Herrera, youth of color as fulcrums to illustrate the stakes and therefore necessity of intersectional approaches like QOC critique. Queer of color critique provides educators and educational researchers useful...

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Callier, D.M. (2016). Gendered Violences and Queer of Color Critiques in Educational Spaces: Remembering Sakia, Carl, and Jaheem. In: Peters, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-532-7_429-1

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