Critical Black Masculinities and Education

Catalog description

This course is intended for advanced undergraduate to engage and apply critical theories of Blackness and masculinities to illuminate complexities across topics within educational research, policy, and practice. This course unpacks the various ways that masc-identifying people leverage, experience, and correct patriarchy as a destructive force. More specifically, this course focuses on topics related to the educational life-worlds of Black male, men, and/or masc identifying people in institutions of colleges and universities, prisons, community initiatives, and even healthcare systems. We will explore the pedagogies and politics that inform these educational projects as well as the sense-making of those who imagine, implement, and participate in them. Students will be challenged to rethink conventions around what constitutes masculine identity and experience, gain exposure to relevant educational policy and practice issues, and design solutions alongside practitioners, artists, and policy advocates.