Reducing Heterosexism in African American Christian Students: Effects of Multicultural Education Courses

Dessel, Adrienne B.; Westmoreland, Amy; Gutiérrez, Lorraine

doi:10.1080/10665684.2016.1194100

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“…Many studies on LGBTQ+ youth of color reveal, with striking clarity, that students who contend with racism and anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination have different experiences from those who experience only one of these kinds of discrimination (Bartone, 2017; Blackburn & McCready, 2009; Brockenbrough, 2016; Dessell et al, 2016; Kumashiro, 2001; Mayo, 2018; McCready, 2004; Pritchard, 2013; Quinn, 2007; Vaught, 2004). For example, the latest GLSEN school climate survey reported that Black LGBTQ+ students were more likely than their white queer counterparts to experience out-of-school suspension or expulsion, and a third of all Black LGBTQ+ students surveyed reported hearing racist remarks and feeling unsafe because of their race/ethnicity—a finding that was not true for their white queer counterparts (Kosciw et al, 2020).…”

Section: Qocc Intersectionality and Black Lgbtq+ Youthmentioning

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Exploring the Agency of Black LGBTQ+ Youth in Schools and in NYC’s Ballroom Culture

Reid

2022

Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education

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Background/Context: In recent years, youth agency has become more prevalent in education research, with many scholars agreeing that youth agency is highly contextual, reliant on multiple forces, and inextricably connected to social identity. However, relatively few studies have explored the agency of Black LGBTQ+ youth and how these youth understand their own agency. This fact connects to the reality that although there is a growing body of research around the educational experiences of LGBTQ+ youth of color, it is often centered on their victimhood and rarely explores how they practice agency to respond to the challenges they face. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study: Recognizing the importance of context and social identity with regard to youth agency, this study extends the literature on youth agency and LGBTQ+ youth of color by exploring the following research question: How do eight Black LGBTQ+ youth who are active members in New York City’s ballroom culture make sense of their agency in school and in out-of-school ballroom spaces? Data Collection and Analysis: Following Seidman’s (2013) interview process, three separate interviews were conducted with all eight youth. In addition, all eight youth participated in two focus groups. The data analysis was informed by a queer of color critique theoretical framework and focused on specific occurrences in the data in which the young people articulated understandings of their agentive practices that worked toward responding to, resisting, or subverting racial and anti-LGBTQ+ marginalization across schooling and ballroom contexts. Findings: Findings indicate that the youth regarded school as a confining space in which they were fearful of anti-LGBTQ+ rejection and abuse. Thus, they used their agency to suppress their LGBTQ+ identities in order to minimize their experiences with discrimination. Suppressing their identities resulted in the youth feeling disconnected from school and isolated, and increased their risk for depression and anxiety. Contrastingly, the youth understood ballroom as a liberatory space in which they felt able to confidently explore and express their LGBTQ+ identities and create alternatives for themselves outside socially constructed expectations of their identities. Conclusions/Recommendations: Results suggest that Black LGBTQ+ youth are always practicing agency, albeit to work toward different ends, such as occulting or exploring their LGBTQ+ identities. Findings suggest that schools can learn from ballroom spaces how to better invite Black LGBTQ+ youth into schools in humane and educative ways, encourage their agentive imaginations within education spaces, and promote liberatory school environments that recognize and embrace these youth’s racial, gender, and sexual identities.

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confidence: 99%

Exploring the Agency of Black LGBTQ+ Youth in Schools and in NYC’s Ballroom Culture

Reid

2022

Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education

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“…Identifying the variety of ways that heterosexism is unique in Africana communities (Madson, 2001) can be a great topic for a social justice action project such as launching and evaluating a program or intervention. Dessel, Westmoreland, and Gutiérrez (2016) studied a strategy aimed at reducing heterosexism in Christian African American students. Students can ask, What is the relationship between religion and heterosexism?…”

Section: Heterosexism In African Descent Peoplesmentioning

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Teaching Africana psychology.

Whitten¹,

Fairchild²,

Richard³

2019

Integrating Multiculturalism and Intersectionality Into the Psychology Curriculum: Strategies for Instructors.

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We choose the term Africana psychology to denote the increasingly international nature of the field (Fairchild, 2017a). 2 The companion webpage for this book includes materials that instructors can use in their classes, including PowerPoint presentations about important issues in Africana psychology and classroom exercises that help students engage with other crucial topics (http://pubs.apa.org/books/supp/mena).

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The nature of incoming graduate social work students' attitudes toward sexual minorities

Jaffee

Dessel

Woodford

2016

Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services

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Reducing Heterosexism in African American Christian Students: Effects of Multicultural Education Courses

Cited by 6 publications

References 13 publications

Exploring the Agency of Black LGBTQ+ Youth in Schools and in NYC’s Ballroom Culture

Exploring the Agency of Black LGBTQ+ Youth in Schools and in NYC’s Ballroom Culture

Teaching Africana psychology.

The nature of incoming graduate social work students' attitudes toward sexual minorities

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