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« Les femmes noires qui aiment les femmes : résistance aux rapports de pouvoir enchevêtrés » aborde les questions de survie d’un point de vue queer et diasporique. Cette thèse soutient que les pratiques et positionnements au quotidien des participantes se situent dans les failles d’un système qui criminalise l’existence même des personnes noir.e.s. L’analyse des conditions de vie de ces femmes permet de mieux comprendre le panorama complexe des systèmes de pouvoir à l’intersection des rapports de classe, de genre, de race et de l’hétéropatriarcat. Elle permet également de reconnaitre leur capacité à créer un espace alternatif, un univers des possibles qui s’oppose aux catégories normatives et hégémoniques. Les réalités des participantes génèrent donc des points de départ où l’altérité devient outil de pensée critique, moyen de résistance et fondement d’un futur substantiellement différent infusé par l’espoir de l’amélioration. Cette recherche se base sur l’autoethnographie, une ethnographie de la participation et des entretiens semi-dirigés de 22 personnes qui s’identifient comme femmes, noires et ayant des rapports sexo-affectifs avec d’autres femmes. Cette thèse porte donc sur le désir et s’appuie sur de multiples apports, majoritairement de théoriciennes racisées, qu’elles soient issues du milieu académique ou fassent partie de mon cercle privé. Elle est formée par de puissants récits, mais également par des silences tout aussi évocateurs, par une attention accrue au domaine du micro et à la description, par une autoethnographie de la participation et par la volonté de dépeindre sur quelques pages ne serait-ce qu’un extrait de la flamboyance de ces femmes. / "Black Women Who Love Women: Resisting Entangled Power Dynamics" addresses issues of survival from a queer and diasporic perspective. This thesis argues that the participants’ everyday practices and positioning are situated within the cracks of a system that criminalizes the very existence of Black people. Analysing these women’s living conditions allows to better understand of the complex landscape of power systems at the intersection of class, gender, race and heteropatriarchy. It also recognizes their ability to create an alternative space, a universe of possibilities that opposes normative and hegemonic categories. The participants’ realities, thus, generate starting points where otherness becomes a tool for critical thinking, a means of resistance, and a foundation for a substantially different future infused with the hope of improvement. This research is based on autoethnography, an ethnography of participation, and semistructured interviews of 22 individuals who identify as female, Black, and have romantic and sexual relations with womens. This thesis, then, centers on desire and draws on multiple inputs, mostly from racialized female theorists, whether from the academic world or from my private circle. It is shaped by powerful narratives, but also by equally impactful silences, by a strong attention to what happen on the micro scale and to description, by an autoethnography of participation, and by a willingness to depict in a few pages even a snippet of these women’s flamboyance.

This Northern California single case qualitative study used Critical Race Theory as a framework for examining the perspectives of African American administrators on improving graduation rates of African American male public high school students in San Joaquin County. Barriers to graduation completion in San Joaquin County public high schools continue to leave stakeholders looking for solutions to change the status quo for African American male high schools students. Ten San Joaquin County African American male and female administrators (identified by pseudonyms) from various public elementary, middle, and high schools were interviewed individually. Participants' responses were categorized into themes according to their answers for each question. Contrary to explanations for low graduation rates of African American male students, as predicted in the literature review of this study, the participants' perspectives rarely indicated that discipline, or lack of parental involvement was a prevailing reason for low graduation rates for African American male students. Low teacher expectations, lack of role models and advocates, and the failure of the school systems to implement successful strategies to improve the graduation rates of African American male students appeared to be the most common themes as discussed in the literature review. Participants perspectives suggest public high schools in San Joaquin County struggle to make positive connections with African American male students. All of the participants claimed that teachers, administrators, and school staff struggle to build and maintain healthy relationships with African American male students. Some of the recommendations from the participants of this study suggest that stakeholders can assist African American male students in overcoming barriers and improving their graduation rates by: starting African American male charter schools, operating mentoring programs in schools, and recruiting more African American teachers and administrators.

Participation of minority parents in the Special Education IEP process continues to be a concern for public school administrators. With the disproportionality of African American males placed in special education and the mandatory involvement requirement in the IEP process, administrators and schools would benefit by understanding the obstacles that prevent the meaningful participation of parents/guardians of African American high school males in the special education IEP process. The purpose of this qualitative study was to analyze the obstacles faced by parents/guardians of African American males, grades 9-12, in the special education Individual Education Plan (IEP) process. This study involved interviewing ten parents/guardians of African American males receiving special education services, attending high schools in Contra Costa and Alameda counties in California. The results found the following themes that prevented the parents/guardians from meaningful participation in the IEP process: (1) Communication between home and school, (2) Knowledge of special education, (3) Parental rights and involvement in the IEP process, and (4) Attitudes of teachers. The strategies there were recommended to increase parental involvement were: (1) Engagement in active listening to parents and guardians at IEP meetings, (2) Changing of IEP meetings to work with parents' work schedules. (3) Improve overall communication with parents and guardians, and (4) Provide special education training for parents and guardians to teach them special education terminology and jargon. Lastly, the study provided various recommendations for further study.

This study explores African American women elementary school principals and how their race and gender impact their decision-making practices as they relate to suspension. Principals are faced with deciding how to implement a variety of policies, including curriculum and instruction, student safety and other district initiatives. Special attention is given to suspension because it impacts the average daily attendance funds that schools receive, and if students are not attending school due to suspension, their academic achievement suffers. In addition, there is an increasing national rate of suspension (Ferges, E. & Noguera, P, 2010) that is leading to heightened responsibilities as it relates to discipline. Sacramento County in California was selected as the site of this study due to its diverse population of elementary students. The research question for this study was: How does the intersection of race and gender impact the decisions related to suspensions for African American women elementary school principals? The theoretical framework used to answer this question is Black Feminist Thought (Collins, 2000). Through in-depth interviews, the women revealed how double consciousness and the dual oppression of race and gender impacted their decisions regarding suspension. Black feminist thought focuses on the marginalized status of African American women and places their experiences at the center of the discourse. With this in mind, the data yielded findings in the following areas 1) race, 2) race and gender, 3) suspension, 4) networking, and 5) mentoring. The intent of this study was to contribute to the field by researching African American women elementary school principals. The focus of suspension practices was selected because of the troubling relationship between academic achievement and suspension. The discourse on African American women in educational leadership has historically been silent, as both a gendered and racialized group (Dillard, 1995). This study attempted to expand the majority of research literature on educational leadership, which has primarily focused on the experiences of White men and women (Bell & Chase, 1993). In addition, this study contributes to suspension scholarship as it considers the elementary school context and the role of race and gender in suspension decisions.

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