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