Date: Saturday, August 9

Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM

Session 036: New Book of Interest to SSSP cosponsored by Gender, Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities
Room: Price Room

Sponsors: Gender, Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities
Program Committee

Organizers: Assata Zerai, The University of New Mexico
Pallavi Banerjee, University of Calgary

Presider: Freeden Blume Oeur, Tufts University

Discussants: Onwubiko Agozino, Virginia Tech
Ranita Ray, The University of New Mexico
Uzma Chowdhury, Teachers College at Columbia University
Amber K. Burrell, University of Washington

Description: 

Brothers in Grief follows a Philadelphia school community—Boys’ Prep, an all-male charter high school serving Black boys—for one academic year, showing how its members responded to the tragic shooting deaths of three of its students. How do Black boys and those entrusted to care for them experience such loss? A combination of factors—among them stereotypes and restricted notions of racialized masculinity, the structural challenges of social class disadvantage, and how adults understand the capacity of young people to express their emotions—can limit how Black boys mourn and recover. The book is an example of deep and inquisitive ethnography, a model of self-reflexive scholarship, and a story that addresses a most difficult topic with the utmost care.

Panelist:

Nora Gross, Barnard College, Columbia University

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