Black Women's Liberatory Pedagogies

Black Women's Liberatory Pedagogies
Author: Olivia N. Perlow
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2017-11-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3319657895

This interdisciplinary anthology sheds light on the frameworks and lived experiences of Black women educators. Contributors for this anthology submitted works from an array of academic disciplines and learning environments, inviting readers to bear witness to black women faculty’s classroom experiences, as well as their pedagogical approaches both inside and outside of the higher education classroom that have fostered transformative teaching-learning environments. Through this multidimensional lens, the editors and contributors view instruction and learning as a political endeavor aimed at changing the way we think about teaching, learning. and praxis.

Remaking Black Power

Remaking Black Power
Author: Ashley D. Farmer
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2017-10-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1469634384

In this comprehensive history, Ashley D. Farmer examines black women's political, social, and cultural engagement with Black Power ideals and organizations. Complicating the assumption that sexism relegated black women to the margins of the movement, Farmer demonstrates how female activists fought for more inclusive understandings of Black Power and social justice by developing new ideas about black womanhood. This compelling book shows how the new tropes of womanhood that they created--the "Militant Black Domestic," the "Revolutionary Black Woman," and the "Third World Woman," for instance--spurred debate among activists over the importance of women and gender to Black Power organizing, causing many of the era's organizations and leaders to critique patriarchy and support gender equality. Making use of a vast and untapped array of black women's artwork, political cartoons, manifestos, and political essays that they produced as members of groups such as the Black Panther Party and the Congress of African People, Farmer reveals how black women activists reimagined black womanhood, challenged sexism, and redefined the meaning of race, gender, and identity in American life.

The Black Girlhood Studies Collection

The Black Girlhood Studies Collection
Author: Aria S. Halliday
Publisher: Canadian Scholars’ Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2019-12-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0889616124

One of the first volumes dedicated to exploring and developing theories of Black girls and girlhoods, The Black Girlhood Studies Collection foregrounds the experiences of Black girls in Canada, the US, the Caribbean, and the African continent. This timely contributed volume brings together emerging and established scholars to discuss what Black girlhood means historically and in the 21st century, and how concepts of race, gender, sexuality, class, and nationality inform or affect identities of Black girls. From self-care and fan activism to political role models and new media, this interdisciplinary collection engages with Black feminist and womanist theory, hip-hop pedagogy, resistance theory, and ethnography. Featuring chapter overviews, glossaries, and discussion questions, this vital resource will evoke meaningful conversation and provide the theoretical, practical, and pedagogical tools necessary for the advancement of the field and the imagining of new worlds for Black girls.

Theorizing Empowerment

Theorizing Empowerment
Author: Njoki Nathani Wane
Publisher: Inanna Publications & Education
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2007
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

Theorizing Empowerment: Canadian Perspectives on Black Feminist Thought is a collection of articles by Black Canadian feminists centralizing the ways in which Black femininity and Black women's experiences are integral to understanding political and social frameworks in Canada. What does Black feminist thought mean to Black Canadian feminists in the Diaspora? What does it means to have a feminist practice which speaks to Black women in Canada? In exploring this question, this anthology collects new ideas and thoughts on the place of Black women's politics in Canada, combining the work of new/upcoming and established names in Black Canadian feminist studies.

Black Women Theorizing Curriculum Studies in Colour and Curves

Black Women Theorizing Curriculum Studies in Colour and Curves
Author: Kirsten T. Edwards Williams
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2020-06-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 042964003X

This book explores the curriculum theorizing of Black women, as well as their historical and contemporary contributions to the always-evolving complicated conversation that is Curriculum Studies. It serves as an opportunity to begin a dialogue of revision and reconciliation and offers a vision for the transformation of academia’s relationship with black women as students, teachers, and theorizers. Taking the perennial silencing of Black women’s voices in academia as its impetus, the book explains how even fields like Curriculum Studies – where scholars have worked to challenge hegemony, injustice, and silence within the larger discipline of education – have struggled to identify an intellectual tradition marked by the Black, female subjectivity. This epistemic amnesia is an ongoing reminder of the strength of what bell hooks calls "imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy", and the ways in which even the most critical spaces fail to recognize the contributions and even the very existence of Black women. Seeking to redress this balance, this book engages the curricular lives of Black women and girls epistemologically, bodily, experientially, and publicly. Providing a clarion call for fellow educators to remain reflexive and committed to emancipatory aims, this book will be of interest to researchers seeking an exploration of critical voices from nondominant identities, perspectives, and concerns. This book was originally published as a special issue of Gender and Education.

Feminist Theory

Feminist Theory
Author: bell hooks
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2014-10-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317588347

When Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center was first published in 1984, it was welcomed and praised by feminist thinkers who wanted a new vision. Even so, individual readers frequently found the theory "unsettling" or "provocative." Today, the blueprint for feminist movement presented in the book remains as provocative and relevant as ever. Written in hooks's characteristic direct style, Feminist Theory embodies the hope that feminists can find a common language to spread the word and create a mass, global feminist movement.

Teaching To Transgress

Teaching To Transgress
Author: Bell Hooks
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2014-03-18
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135200017

First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Feminist Theories and Education

Feminist Theories and Education
Author: Leila E. Villaverde
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2008
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780820471471

The author questions commonly understood binaries in understanding gender, identity, sexuality, and education in order to forge new areas of theorizing the politics of self and other while destabilizing established power hierarchies. The book concludes with a discussion of feminist pedagogy and activism, stressing the significance of analyzing pedagogy and working to create more open feminist and democratic spaces for learning."--Jacket.

African Gender Studies

African Gender Studies
Author: Oyeronke Oyewumi
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2016-09-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 113709009X

This is the first comprehensive reader that brings African experiences to bear on the ongoing global discussions of women, gender, and society. Bringing together the essential writing on this topic from the last 25 years, these essays discuss gender in Africa from a multi-disciplinary perspective.