Full Description
This timely and informative volume centres how global Black feminist narratives of care are important to our contemporary theorizing and highlights the transgressive potential of a critical transnational Black feminist pedagogical praxis.
This text not only details how such praxis can be revolutionary for the academy but also provides poignant examples of the student scholarship that can be produced when such pedagogy is applied. Drawing on narratives from Black women around the globe, the book features chapters on pedagogy, mentorship, art, migration, relationships, and how Black women make sense of navigating social and institutional barriers. Readers of the text will benefit from an interdisciplinary, global approach to Black feminisms that centres the narratives and experiences of these women. Readers will also gain knowledge about the historical and contemporary scholarship produced by Black women across the globe.
This book is an invaluable resource for scholars and researchers, including graduate students in Caribbean feminisms, Black feminisms, transnational feminism, sociology, political science, the performing arts, cultural studies, and Caribbean studies.
Contents
0. Home-Grown and Grounded: Black Caribbean Feminist Pedagogies in Global Conversation SECTION I: Black Feminisms: Sites of Black Feminist Existence 1. Women's Studies After Wynter: Teaching Gender and Development Studies in a Gender-Conscious Caribbean 2. The Geography of Healing at the End of the World: Black Scholar Practitioners Who Evoke Toni Morrison's The Clearing 3. Public Scholarship as B(l)ack Talk: African Feminist Collaborations in the Academy and Online SECTION II: Black Women's Lived Experiences in Our Contemporary Societies 4. Mothering in Neo-liberal Contexts: Caribbean Women's Experiences 5. Psychosocial Uncertainty: Making Sense of Institutional Suffering in Trinidad and Tobago 6. Black Favela Feminism: The Struggle for Survival as a Transformative Praxis SECTION III: Black Feminist Activism: A Worldmaking Praxis of Care 7. Subversive Knowledges and Praxes of Black Immigrants in the United States: Reflections from a Scholar-Advocate 8. The Women. They Were Plotting Too: Declaring our Independence in the Spirit of Sankofa 9. Critical Transnational Queer Praxis: Perspectives on (Re)Production, Performance, and Punishment in the Academy SECTION IV: Black Feminisms and Healing Futures 10. 'Tacit Sexualities' Transforming the Narrative: Afro-Caribbean Women and the Politics of the Body 11. University Plantation Il/logics: Black Women's Fugitivity and Futurity in the Wake of COVID-19 and the Global Anti-racist Uprisings of 2020/21 Afterword
