ABSTRACT
Our current sociocultural and political contexts demonstrate why the development of racial literacy matters in promoting equity and social justice and underscore the importance for the field of education to prioritize pathways to understanding race and racism toward global citizenship. We open this chapter by referencing our lived experiences as Black women scholars planning curriculum for a literacy-oriented study abroad program (SAP) for Black women participants in order to frame the conceptual constraints that we encountered while constructing a curriculum map that employed racial literacy as curriculum and pedagogy. Those constraints became the catalyst for this chapter, in which we draw upon lived experience to theorize a Black feminist—specifically, intersectional—racial literacy that is endarkened, engendered, and embodied.
