Full Description
Introducing and engaging with womanist frameworks to center the lives of Global South women who live under colonial oppressions, this collection centers the consciousness, spirituality, philosophy, wisdom, community institutions, and ecologies found in a variety of Global South regions and diasporas.
Diasporic Womanist Sociology offers a decolonial approach to critical research, interpretive frameworks, pedagogy, mentorship, activism, and building academia-community collectives of solidarity, presenting womanism as a practical framework for personal and professional development for sociologists and scholars in other fields. With contributors from South Asia, Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia, and North America, this book draws on tenets of womanism to shape their practice and engagement with students, scholars, and activists, especially those of the Global South and its diasporas.
This volume makes critical contributions to fields ranging from Gender and Women Studies, Race and Ethnic Studies, and Decolonial and Postcolonial Theory, and can be assigned to undergraduate and graduate students to explore the foundational work of Black Feminism and gender non-conforming people of color and an inclusive framework of identity, spirituality, and pursuit of social justice.
Contents
Introduction - Cultivating a Diasporic Womanist Consciousness
Part One- Sociology as Diasporic Womanist Vocational Praxis
Chapter1: Decolonising Higher Education: A Diasporic Womanist Analysis of Universities, Graduate Student Training, and Curricula Development
Chapter 2: Decolonizing Student-Teacher Relations - A Diasporic Womanist Praxis of Pedagogy and Mentorship
Chapter 3: Decolonizing Research - A Reflexive Journey of A Caribbean Womanist Ethnographer working with Woweta Indigenous Women in Guyana.
Part Two: Diasporic Womanist Perspectives on Birthing and Mothering
Chapter 4: A Labor of Love: The Historical and Contemporary Formation of Black Birthing Hush Harbors through a Womanist Lens
Chapter 5: Reproductive Journeys of Indo-Caribbean Women: An Indo-Caribbean Womanist Perspective
Chapter 6: Violence Against Women: An Afro-Brazilian Womanist Perspective
Part Three: Diasporic Womanist Cosmological and Ecological Centering
Chapter 7: Let's Talk Womanist Behaviors: A Conversation on the Nature of Black Women's Community Organizing Traditions and Ethics of Care in Continuation of Maroon Spaces
Chapter 8: June Jordan's Terraforming: A Diasporic Womanist's Visionary Solution
Chapter 9: Colonial Ecologies in a Black Farming Community: An Eco-Womanist Spiritual Activist AutoEthnography
Part Four: Outside The Ivory: Showcasing Everyday Diasporic Womanist Activism
Chapter 12: Black Subaltern Self-Actualization: A Jamaican Diasporic Womanist in the Non-Profit World, Dr. Shauna Knox
Chapter 13: An Afro-Jewish Biracial Doula Antiracist Public Educator, Dr. Megan Madison
Chapter 14: An Interdisciplinary Cultural Activist, Jalessah T. Jackson
