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Over the last generation, the womanist idea--and the tradition blooming around it--has emerged as an important response to separatism, domination, and oppression. Gary L. Lemons gathers a diverse group of writers to discuss their scholarly and personal experiences with the womanist spirit of women of color feminisms. Feminist and womanist-identified educators, students, performers, and poets model the powerful ways that crossing borders of race, gender, class, sexuality, and nation-state affiliation(s) expands one's existence. At the same time, they bear witness to how the self-liberating theory and practice of women of color feminism changes one's life. Throughout, the essayists come together to promote an unwavering vein of activist comradeship capable of building political alliances dedicated to liberty and social justice. Contributors: M. Jacqui Alexander, Dora Arreola, Andrea Assaf, Kendra N. Bryant, Rudolph P. Byrd, Atika Chaudhary, Paul T. Corrigan, Fanni V. Green, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Susan Hoeller, Ylce Irizarry, M. Thandabantu Iverson, Gary L. Lemons, Layli Maparyan, and Erica C. Sutherlin
Contents
TitleCopyrightContentsForeword AnaLouise KeatingIntroduction: "Womanist Is to Feminist as Purple Is to Lavender": Writing in Solidarity across ShadePart I. Teaching in the "Universal[ist]" Spirit of Womanism1. Spirituality in the Classroom: Some Womanist Reflections / Layli Maparyan2. Coming into Being: Metta to Womanist Teachers / Kendra N. Bryant3. Professing the Liberatory Power of Womanism / Gary L. Lemons4. A Doctored Voice: Resistance, Reading, and Righting as Womanist Pedagogy / Ylce IrizarryPart II. Womanist Alliances for Human Rights and Social Justice5. Breaking Silence / M. Jacqui Alexander and Beverly Guy-Sheftall6. From Exile to Healing: I "Too" Am a Womanist / Susie L.Hoeller7. Nepantlera as Midwife of Empathy / Paul T. Corrigan8. A Deeper Shade of Consciousness: My Voice Is My Resistance / Atika ChaudharyPart III. Speaking and Acting Out in Womanist Solidarity9. Transgenero Performance: Gender and Transformation in Mujeres en Ritual / Dora Arreola10. Soy Mujer Cuando . . . A Collective Poem / Andrea Assaf11. Now Is Not the Time for Silence: Writing and Directing What the Heart Remembers / Fanni V. Green12. "I Come from a Dream Deferred" / Erica C. Sutherlin13. On Becoming a Feminist / Rudolph P. Byrd14. Compelled by the Spirit: My Journey to Become a Womanist Man / M. Thandabantu IversonContributorsIndex
