Black Women Theorizing Curriculum Studies in Colour and Curves

Kirsten T. Edwards Williams is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA, where she is also Core Affiliate Faculty for Women’s & Gender Studies and the Center for Social Justice. Denise Taliaferro Baszile is Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Associate Dean of Diversity and Student Experience for the College of Education, Health, and Society at Miami University, Ohio, Ohio, USA. Nichole A. Guillory is Professor of Curriculum & Instruction in the Department of Secondary & Middle Grades Education at Kennesaw State University, USA, where she is also Affiliate Faculty in the African and African Diaspora Studies program.

• Introduction – When, where, and why we enter: Black women’s curriculum theorising 1. Towards decolonial praxis: reconfiguring the human and the curriculum 2. ‘I know what you are about to enter’: lived experiences as the curricular foundation for teaching citizenship 3. ‘You can’t see for lookin’’: how Southern womanism informs perspectives of work and curriculum theory 4. The Black Women’s Gathering Place: reconceptualising a curriculum of place/space 5. Curriculum homeplacing as complicated conversation: (re)narrating the mentoring of Black women doctoral students 6. Complicated contradictions amid Black feminism and millennial Black women teachers creating curriculum for Black girls 7. Talking back in cyberspace: self-love, hair care, and counter narratives in Black adolescent girls’ YouTube vlogs 8. Super-Girl: strength and sadness in Black girlhood 9. Reparative readings: re-claiming black feminized bodies as sites of somatic pleasures and possibilities 10. Mapping the margins and searching for higher ground: examining the marginalization of black female graduate students at PWIs 11. Revealing a hidden curriculum of Black women’s erasure in sexual violence prevention policy 12. Curriculum as colour and curves: a synthesis of Black theory, design and creativity realized as critical curriculum writing 13. Black women’s bodies, ideology, and the public curriculum of the pro- and anti-choice movements in the US