Rethinking Black Boyhood Project

Welcome to my channel! On this channel we will mostly talk about how Black masculinity is represented in Children's Literature. This will be done with 4 episodes. Episode 1 discusses how Black masculinity has been formed, and how it's definitions have been centered in Whiteness. The second episode is a community conversation with Black men to talk about masculinity, manhood, and what we have been taught about those things. The last two episodes will particularly focuses on literature that challenges dominant portrayals of Black masculinity and challenges us to truly rethink Black boyhood. I invite your comments, thoughts, and perspective (as long as they are respectful). Let's learn together as a community! 

This series was designed as a part of my graduate research in the class Multicultural Children's Literature instructed by Dr. Marek C. Oziewicz in the fall of 2020 at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities.