Troubling Intersections of Race and Sexuality

Queer Students of Color and Anti-Oppressive Education

Contributions by Kayla Chan, Stuart F. Chen-Hayes, Teddy Consolacion, Gordon de Frane, Michele Garrett, Raven E. Heavy Runner, Alexander Hakyun Hong, Didi Khayatt, Lisa W. Loutzenheiser, Lance McCready, Cristina M. Misa, Paula Ressler, Stephen T. Russell, Linda Scholl, James T. Sears, "Shadow Wolf, " Chy Ryan Spain, William Tran, Nhan L. Truong, Joan Ariki Varney Edited by Kevin K. Kumashiro

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Publication date:

26 June 2001

Length of book:

256 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781461646433

In recent years, researchers have considerably expanded our understanding of the experiences of students of color and of students who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and questioning (ie. Queer). They have provided us with rich resources for addressing racism and heterosexism; however, few have examined the unique experiences of students who are both queer and of color, and few have examined the heterosexist or white-centered nature of anti-racist or anti-heterosexist education (respectively). What of the students and educators who live and teach at the intersection of race and sexuality?
By combining autobiographical accounts with qualitative and quantitative research on queer students of different racial backgrounds, these essays not only trouble the ways we think about the intersections of race and sexuality, they also offer theoretical insights and educational strategies to educators committed to bringing about change.

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Foreword
Chapter 3 Acknowledgments
Chapter 4 Queer Students of Color and Antiracist, Antiheterosexist Education: Paradoxes of Identity and Activism
Part 5 Identities and Cultures
Chapter 6 Eres Maricon? Por "Eladio"
Chapter 7 To Be Objectified
Chapter 8 When Fitting In Isn't an Option, or Why Black Queer Males at a California High School Stay Away from Project 10
Chapter 9 An Interview with Dena Underwood
Chapter 10 Chosen
Chapter 11 Where Have All the Queer Students of Color Gone? Negotiated Identity of Queer Chicana/o Students
Chapter 12 GAM4GWM
Chapter 13 Where I Am Today
Chapter 14 Undressing the Normal: Community Efforts for Queer Asian and Asian American Youth
Chapter 15 An Interview with Quincy Greene
Chapter 16 "There are No Gay Koreans"
Chapter 17 Adolescent Sexual Orientation, Race, Ethnicity, and School Environments: A National Study of Sexual Minority Youth of Color
Chapter 18 First Nations, Queer and Education
Chapter 19 Gray Boy, Rainbow Man
Part 20 Anti-Racist, Anti-Heterosexist Education
Chapter 21 Narratives of Hybridity and the Challenge to Multicultural Education
Chapter 22 Systemic Anti-Oppression Strategies for School Counselors as Allies Advocating for Queer Children, Youth, and Families of Multiracial Experience
Chapter 23 Race and Sexual Orientation in Multicultural Feminist Teacher Education
Chapter 24 "If I Teach About these Issues they Will Blow Up My House": The Possibilities and Tensions of Queered, Anti-Racist Pedagogy

Kumashiro has orchestrated a revealing and illuminating account of both the problematic and contested social, political, and educational issues that many gay and straight students and educators confront in schools and society. Each chapter author disrupts silences and gives voice to important facets of school and college life that oppress queer students, such as curriculum, pedagogy, climate, staff, and identity formation. Collectively, the chapters become a powerful tool for understanding intersections of race and sexuality, and the impact of this intersection in the daily lives of students and teachers.