Full Description
In this lively, thought-provoking study, AnaLouise Keating writes in the traditions of radical U.S. women-of-color feminist/womanist thought and queer studies, inviting us to transform how we think about identity, difference, social justice and social change, metaphysics, reading, and teaching. Through detailed investigations of women of color theories and writings, indigenous thought, and her own personal and pedagogical experiences, Keating develops transformative modes of engagement that move through oppositional approaches to embrace interconnectivity as a framework for identity formation, theorizing, social change, and the possibility of planetary citizenship. Speaking to many dimensions of contemporary scholarship, activism, and social justice work, Transformation Now! calls for and enacts innovative, radically inclusionary ways of reading, teaching, and communicating.
Contents
CoverTitle PageCopyrightContentsGIVING THANKSIntroduction. Post-Oppositional Resistance? Threshold Theories Defined and Enacted1. Beyond Intersectionality: Theorizing Interconnectivity with/in This Bridge Called My Back:2. "American" Individualism, Variations on a Theme; or, Self-Reliance, Transformed!3. "I am your other I": Transformational Identity Politics4. "There is no arcane place for return": Revisionist Mythmaking with a Difference5. From Self-Help to Womanist Self-Recovery: or, How Paula Gunn Allen Changed My Mind6. Pedagogies of Invitation: From Status-Quo Stories to Cosmic ConnectionsAppendix 1. Abridged Syllabus for a U.S. Women of Colors CourseAppendix 2. Guidelines for a Workshop on Our Spoken Word: Poetry for Self and CommunityNotesWorks Cited and ConsultedIndex
