{"product_id":"9781041307051","title":"Queer Futures, Decolonial Literacies, and Classroom Worlds in Puerto Rico Archipelagic Boyhoods","description":"\u003ch3\u003eRoutledge Critical Studies in Gender and Sexuality in Education\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eQueer Futures, Decolonial Literacies, and Classroom Worlds in Puerto Rico\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eArchipelagic Boyhoods\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eGabriel T. Acevedo Velázquez\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eEDU062000\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book reimagines masculinity, education, and belonging through the everyday lives and literacies of Puerto Rican youth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on more than a decade of classroom teaching, storytelling, and community-based research, the author demonstrates how high school students utilize literature to challenge colonial dependence, economic austerity, and anti-LGBTQ+ politics, while envisioning more just, creative, and inclusive futures. Blending literary criticism, cultural studies, and critical pedagogy, the author connects decolonial theory with classroom practice to demonstrate how reading becomes a form of world-building, survival, and collective transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough the study of children’s picture books, young adult novels, and queer Caribbean fiction, the author’s theory of archipelagic masculinities emerges—a fluid, relational, and caring model of boyhood rooted in community, movement, and mutual repair. Each chapter combines theoretical reflection with vivid classroom vignettes and bilingual teaching resources to support educators in affirming queer and trans students, while preserving Caribbean and diasporic knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAccessible, rigorous, and urgent, this book invites teachers, scholars, and activists to see classrooms as archipelagic spaces—places of resilience, recovery, resistance, and repair where young people can reimagine freedom, belonging, and solidarity across islands, languages, and generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGabriel T. Acevedo Velázquez\u003c\/b\u003e is an Assistant Professor of English at Arizona State University, USA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e23 March 2027\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eTaylor \u0026amp; Francis\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eRoutledge\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781041307051\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e204\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63547345862796,"sku":"9781041307051","price":210.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781041307051","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}