Open AccessA Whitened Rainbow: The In/visibility of Race and Racism in LGBTQ+ Higher Education Scholarship
Author(s) -
Romeo Jackson,
Alex C. Lange,
Antonio Durán
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal committed to social change on race and ethnicity
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2642-2387
DOI - 10.15763/issn.2642-2387.2021.7.2.173-206
Subject(s) - scholarship , racism , gender studies , sociology , queer , race (biology) , intersectionality , critical race theory , political science , law
Scholars critique LGBTQ+ social movements for failing to understand how oppressive systems like racism inform the experiences of LGBTQ+ community members. To investigate whether LGBTQ+ literature in postsecondary education reproduces this same pattern, we used a critical summative content analysis approach to examine research published on LGBTQ+ people between 2009 and 2019. Guided by a conceptual framework mobilizing notions of colorblindness and queer of color perspectives, we found that the 97 articles in the sample largely minimized the role that racism, anti-Blackness, whiteness, and settler colonialism plays in shaping LGBTQ+ realities in higher education. Implications for future scholarship are offered.