As the month of December hits, many people cannot wait for the mess of a year 2016 to be over. There have been many shocking debuts this past year, the most recent, the end of the election where the Electoral College votes were in the favor of Republican candidate Donald Trump. Once that information was released, panic ensued for many people, but this is not the only moment of panic that has occurred this year. In February, the one and only, Beyoncé Knowles, released her new single, “Formation”, which stirred up the pot of moral panic in the music industry. Her new hit single was filled with messages of pride as she willfully sings about her her identity and how she is very proud of it. Shortly after the release of her new single, she
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Nyachae is an educator in the public school system. As a millennial, African American woman, she has noticed two hindrances: disrupting the racist and sexist status quo of schooling through curriculum and employing tactics to survive school politics among their white majority colleagues. Major dilemmas that have been identified are the product of school segregation, color blindness rhetoric, neo-liberal ideals and limited exposure to Black women educational scholarship in teacher education programs. The Sisters of Promise curriculum is an education program focus on including Black Feminism into the structured educational system. The research questions that Nyachae proposed were: To what extent did the Sisters of Promise curriculum reflect Black feminism and Black feminist pedagogy and to what extent did this curriculum reinforce a racist and sexist status quo? The curriculum was studied and analyzed by the participation by eighty female African American students in fifth to eighth grade. At the end of the study, the curriculum did pertain elements of Black feminism, but there is still a struggle to present the message due to the lack of exposure of Black women scholars in curriculum studies. Even though this source was specifically about a school curriculum, if there was more of a presence of role models besides white men, there might not have been as much of a panic when Beyoncé released “Formation” to the
Nyachae is an educator in the public school system. As a millennial, African American woman, she has noticed two hindrances: disrupting the racist and sexist status quo of schooling through curriculum and employing tactics to survive school politics among their white majority colleagues. Major dilemmas that have been identified are the product of school segregation, color blindness rhetoric, neo-liberal ideals and limited exposure to Black women educational scholarship in teacher education programs. The Sisters of Promise curriculum is an education program focus on including Black Feminism into the structured educational system. The research questions that Nyachae proposed were: To what extent did the Sisters of Promise curriculum reflect Black feminism and Black feminist pedagogy and to what extent did this curriculum reinforce a racist and sexist status quo? The curriculum was studied and analyzed by the participation by eighty female African American students in fifth to eighth grade. At the end of the study, the curriculum did pertain elements of Black feminism, but there is still a struggle to present the message due to the lack of exposure of Black women scholars in curriculum studies. Even though this source was specifically about a school curriculum, if there was more of a presence of role models besides white men, there might not have been as much of a panic when Beyoncé released “Formation” to the