The Power and Freedom of Black Feminist and Womanist Pedagogy: Still Woke celebrates and reaffirms the power of Black feminist and womanist pedagogies and practices in university classrooms. Employing autocritography (through personal reflection, research, and critical analysis), the contributors to the volume boldly tell groundbreaking stories of their teaching experiences and their evolving relationships to Black feminist and womanist theory and criticism. From their own unique perspectives, each contributor views teaching as a life-changing collaborative and interactive endeavor with students. Moreover, each of them envisions their pedagogical practice as a strategic vehicle to transport the legacy of struggles for liberating, social justice and transformative change in the U.S. and globally. Firmly grounded in Black feminist and womanist theory and practice, this book honors the herstorical labor of Black women and women of color intellectual activists who have unapologetically held up the banner of freedom in academia.
The Power and Freedom of Black Feminist and Womanist Pedagogy explores diverse perspectives on the liberating power of Black feminist and womanist pedagogical practices. The contributors boldly tell groundbreaking stories of their teaching experiences and their evolving relationships to Black feminist and womanist theory and criticism.
Recenzijos
The impressive range of scholar-teachers who comprise The Power and Freedom of Black Feminist and Womanist Pedagogy are serving black feminist and womanist activist pedagogy with grit, vulnerability, passion, and insight. To invoke Toni Morrisons eloquent words, The Power and Freedom of Black Feminist and Womanist Pedagogy is not a set of stories "to pass on." -- David Ikard, Vanderbilt University Still Wokeinspired by the pedagogical praxis and feminist/womanist theorizing of bell hooksis a provocative, candid, inspirational, robust, exploration of what it means to craft transformative, transgressive classrooms. A diverse group of radical professors share, unapologetically, their own personal journeys and teaching strategies within a variety of academic contexts. This pioneering anthology bears witness to the unique struggles of committed feminist/womanist classroom warriors in their quest for survival, social justice and freedom. -- Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Womens Studies at Spelman College
Preface: Reaffirming the Power and Joy of Black Feminist and Womanist
Thought, Gary L. Lemons and Cheryl R. Rodriguez
Introduction: Embracing Transformation: Welcoming Wholeness and Truth into
Our Classrooms, Cheryl R. Rodriguez and Gary L. Lemons
Part I: I AmPedagogies of Resistance, Liberation, and Transformation
Chapter One: The Radical Work of Teaching for Justice: Black Feminist
Pedagogy for 21st Century Thought and Activism, Cheryl R. Rodriguez
Chapter Two: Teaching as Liberatory Praxis: Learning to Shed Fear and
Transcend Structures of Domination in the Classroom, Hanna Garth
Chapter Three: Teaching Relationality: Pedagogies Across Asymmetries of
Racialization and Colonization, Quynh Nhu Le
Chapter Four: I am that, too: Integrating the Black Woman into the First Year
Composition Classroom, Kendra N. Bryant
Part II: Education as the Practice of Freedom: Holding on to bell hooks
Pedagogical Legacy
Chapter Five: Still Becoming Me: My Journey through bell hooks Vision of
Engaged Pedagogy, La-Toya Scott
Chapter Six: I Ain't No Damned Pedagogue: Reevaluating my Stance in the
Classroom from a Black Feminist Perspective and Reclaiming my Mother Tongue,
Maggie Romigh
Chapter Seven: You Poured Your Soul into This Work: A Dialogue in the Spirit
of Self-Transformation, Paul T. Corrigan
Chapter Eight: Teaching to Progress: bell hooks, Radical Roots and Branches,
Scott Neumeister
Part III: Black Male Radical (His)Stories: Teaching to Survive
Chapter Nine: Remembering Intersectional Interventions Teaching to Reclaim
Human Rights Legacies, M. Thandabantu Iverson
Chapter Ten: Working Overtime: My Mother and Black Feminists Embodied
Narrative Inheritance, Marquese McFerguson
Chapter Eleven: A Pedagogical Awakening: My Pro-Womanist His-Story, Vincent
Adejumo
Chapter Twelve: The Past and Future Diversities of HBCUs: Queerness and the
Institutional Fulfillment of Black Studies, Roderick A. Ferguson
Chapter Thirteen: Postscript: Professing Our Love for Social Justice
Committed to Survival and Wholeness of Entire People, Gary L Lemons and
Cheryl Rodriguez
About the Contributors
Gary L. Lemons is professor of English at the University of South Florida.
Cheryl R. Rodriguez is professor of Africana studies and anthropology at the University of South Florida.
