Department of Education, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.
J Homosex. 2012;59(7):982-1004. doi: 10.1080/00918369.2012.699839.
As a form of deregulated capitalism that has run amok, commodifying all that is in its path, and as a cultural means of commodifying Black and brown bodies, neoliberalism has taken a serious toll on the lives of working-class queer youth of color. Although it has hijacked spaces of cultural representation and material production, neoliberal capitalism is far from transparent. Through resistance, activism and performance queer youth of color have now started to shape a critique of oppressive structures, neoliberal policies, and pedagogical practices that are critical of their intersecting identities. This article examines neoliberalism's impact on education, focusing on educational policy and how these policies have affected queer youth of color in the urban centers of our major cities. This article also considers the contributions made by educators writing from the perspective of critical pedagogy in addressing the plight of queer youth of color in U.S. schools while employing the example of the dance group, Innovation, as way of addressing the havoc of neoliberalism in the lives of queer youth of color through performance and activism. This group has not only transformed notions of gender, race, class and sexuality that challenge major tenants of neoliberalism, but has also served as potent sites for the development of a critical pedagogy for working-class queer youth of color. Through sites of resistance rooted in progressive struggle, queer youth of color must be enabled by critical transformative intellectuals committed to encouraging youth to critically evaluate and challenge ideologies while displaying an allegiance to egalitarianism.
作为一种失控的、不受监管的资本主义形式，它将所有事物都商品化，将黑人和棕色人种的身体也商品化，新自由主义对有色人种工人阶级酷儿青年的生活造成了严重影响。尽管新自由主义资本主义已经劫持了文化表现和物质生产的空间，但它远非透明的。通过抵抗、行动主义和表演，有色人种酷儿青年现在已经开始对压迫性结构、新自由主义政策和批判他们交叉身份的教学实践进行批判。本文考察了新自由主义对教育的影响，重点关注教育政策以及这些政策如何影响我们主要城市的城市中心的有色人种酷儿青年。本文还考虑了从批判教育学角度撰写的教育工作者在解决美国学校中有色人种酷儿青年困境方面的贡献，同时以舞蹈团体“Innovation”为例，通过表演和行动主义来解决新自由主义对有色人种酷儿青年生活的破坏。该团体不仅挑战了新自由主义的主要原则，改变了性别、种族、阶级和性的观念，而且还为工人阶级的有色人种酷儿青年提供了一种批判教育学的有力场所。通过根植于进步斗争的抵抗场所，必须由致力于鼓励青年批判性地评估和挑战意识形态的批判转型知识分子为有色人种酷儿青年赋权，同时表现出对平等主义的忠诚。
