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Queer of Color Critique

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A “queer of color critique” indexes an analytic approach to understanding the dialectics between hegemony and resistance that shape the lives of queers of color. Informed conceptually by queer studies and women of color feminism, and rooted epistemologically in the lived experiences of queers of color, a queer of color critique contextualizes the marginalization of queer of color difference, and it differentiates strategies of resistance to account for the shifting exigencies of the lives of queers of color. These affordances distinguish a queer of color critique as a unique heuristic for educational scholarship on queer of color identities and experiences.

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  3. Critical Policy, Equity, and Leadership Studies, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

    Jennifer C. Ingrey

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    Edward Brockenbrough

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Brockenbrough, E. (2016). Queer of Color Critique. In: Rodriguez, N., Martino, W., Ingrey, J., Brockenbrough, E. (eds) Critical Concepts in Queer Studies and Education. Queer Studies and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55425-3_28

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