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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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Compulsory heterosexuality and the queering of southern lines

David Herman

pp. 127-132

Abstract

Educational spaces extend well beyond the brick and mortar of a school building. In this chapter, Herman considers a familiar structure of Southern Black culture in the United States as an educational terrain where bodies become central to the production of knowledge and agency. Further, Herman explores Sara Ahmed's concept of compulsory heterosexuality in which she claims that some bodies are marked with privileges and that those bodies labor to perpetuate those privileges as norms on other bodies. This chapter offers up an experience between a teenage daughter and her parents that speaks to a gendered Black body in a heteronormative world and what occurs when traditions, family values, or what Ahmed considers 'straightlines' are disrupted and queered.

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Travis Sarah, Kraehe Amelia M., Hood Emily J., Lewis Tyson E. (2018) Pedagogies in the flesh: case studies on the embodiment of sociocultural differences in education. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 127-132

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-59599-3_19

Full citation:

Herman David (2018) „Compulsory heterosexuality and the queering of southern lines“, In: S. Travis, A. M. Kraehe, E. J. Hood & T. E. Lewis (eds.), Pedagogies in the flesh, Dordrecht, Springer, 127–132.