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Becoming Visible: Black Queer Masculinity, Identity & Liberation in Contemporary Literature
A 10-Lesson ELA / Interdisciplinary Humanities Unit
This curriculum explores Black boyhood, masculinity, visibility, resistance, and American identity through culturally responsive literary and social analysis. Students examine how race, gender, power, and representation shape lived experience. Ideal for secondary ELA, Black studies, identity units, advisory, and social justice-centered classrooms.
GRADES: 9–12
LENGTH: 10 lessons • 60–90 minutes each
TEXT SET: Kacen Callender, This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story • Dean Atta, The Black Flamingo
CONTENT AREAS: ELA • Black Studies • Performance Studies • SEL-informed Humanities
Becoming Visible: Black Queer Masculinity, Identity & Liberation in Contemporary Literature
A 10-Lesson ELA / Interdisciplinary Humanities Unit
This curriculum explores Black boyhood, masculinity, visibility, resistance, and American identity through culturally responsive literary and social analysis. Students examine how race, gender, power, and representation shape lived experience. Ideal for secondary ELA, Black studies, identity units, advisory, and social justice-centered classrooms.
GRADES: 9–12
LENGTH: 10 lessons • 60–90 minutes each
TEXT SET: Kacen Callender, This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story • Dean Atta, The Black Flamingo
CONTENT AREAS: ELA • Black Studies • Performance Studies • SEL-informed Humanities