Queering Education in the Deep South

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-64113-246-6
Verlag: Information Age Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 194 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 461 g

Reihe: Research in Queer Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Strunk, Kamden K.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction: Queering Education in the Deep South
- Part I: 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
- “No Matter What Personal Feelings We Have…”: Exploring the Tension Between Preservice Teachers’ Personal Ideologies About and Professional Responsibilities for LGBTQ Students
- Disturbing Identities and Messy Entanglements: Teaching Queer Theory in the American South
- Part II: Queering Educational Policy And Practice. Queering the University: The Evolution of LGBTQ Inclusivity at a University in the Deep South, 1950–2016
- Safe Schools Coalitions in the Deep South: Exploring Stories of Formation, Diversity, and Communication
- Stonewalled at Every Level: Exploring the Experiences of College Student Affairs Administrators Advocating for Change in the Deep South
- Making Sense of Contradictions in Deep South Schooling: Queer Potentialities and Possibilities
- From Football to Lecture Hallk: LGBTQ Perceptions of Campus Climate
- Part III: Queering Literature, Libraries, And Archives. Archiving the Kings & Queen City: Creating a Queer Archive in Charlotte North Carolina
- The LGBT Archives Project of Louisiana: A Community Organizing Success Story
- It Takes Three to Tango: Reading, Teaching, and Challenging Queer Literature in the South
- Conclusion
- Author Biographies.

Über Autor(innen)

Kamden Strunk is an Assistant Professor at Auburn University, where he teaches quantitative research methods. He is a scholar-activist focused on issues of social justice in education, LGBTQ issues and queer studies, and race in the education. Much of his research and writing focus on issues in the 'Deep South' region of the U.S. He is also a director of the Research Initiative on Social Justice and Equity (RISE).