Full Description
This new edition of Black Feminist Sociology offers revised and updated chapters on the history, contours, and prospects of the Black feminist tradition in sociology.
This volume offers new writings by established and emerging scholars working in a Black feminist tradition that provide important attention to transnational Black feminist perspectives, Black feminist sociological abolition, and Black feminist sociology in connection to other women of color feminisms. As well, this new edition incorporates further pedagogical enhancements, such as an instructor's appendix that includes examples that map how to use the text in the classroom, questions to consider, and links to digital resources. The book overall centers Black feminist sociology (BFS) within the sociology canon and widens it to feature Black feminist sociologists both outside the US and the academy. Inspired by a BFS lens, the chapters are critical, personal, political and oriented toward social justice. Key themes include the origins of BFS, expositions of BFS orientations to research that extend disciplinary norms, and contradictions of the pleasures and costs of such an approach both academically and personally. Authors explore their own sociological legacy of intellectual development to raise critical questions of intellectual thought and self-reflexivity.
The book highlights the dynamism of BFS so future generations of scholars can expand upon and beyond the book's key themes. This new edition will be an essential and valuable resource for students and instructors in introductory and intermediate courses in sociology, social theory, race and ethnic studies, Black studies, feminist and womanist studies, and cultural studies.
Contents
1.Foreword. 2.Acknowledgements. 3.Introduction to the Second Edition. 4.Editorial Assistants' Reflection. 5.Introduction: Black Feminist Sociology is the Past, Present and Future of Sociology. Period. Part 1 Revisiting Legacies of Black Feminist Sociology and How They Ground Us. 6.Black Feminist Sociology: An Interview With Patricia Hill Collins. 7.The Black Feminist Roots of Scholar-Activism: Lessons From Ida B. Wells-Barnett. 8.The Radical Black Feminism Project: Rearticulating A Critical Sociology. 9.The Language Through Which Black Feminist Theory Speaks: A Conversation With Jennifer C. Nash. 10.Toward a Transnational Black Feminist Sociology. Part 2 Black Feminist Sociological Communities and How They Speak to Us. 11.Reflections on Re-Creating Biological Race and the Entrapment of Black People. 12.Centering US: What Doing Black Feminist Sociology Really Looks Like. 13.Nothing About US, Without US: Reinscribing Black Feminism in Sociology. 14.#BlackGirlMagic and Its Complexities. 15.Learning, Teaching, Re-Membering and Enacting Black Feminist Sociology at a Black Women's College: Love Letters to One Another. Part 3 Black Feminist Sociology Epistemologies and What They Reveal to Us. 16.Black Feminist Sociology and the Politics of Space and Place at the Intersection of Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality. 17.Global Health and BFS: Diasporic Research and Interventions Rooted in Advocacy. 18.Family Background and the Meanings of Economic Autonomy for Black Lesbian Women. 19."Kantsaywhere": Black African Women Inside the Australian Racial Crucible. 20.Black Feminist Piety: A Framework for Engaging Islam in Black Feminist Sociology. 21."Who Are You Accountable to in This World? :Black Feminist Inspiration for Research. Part 4 Black Feminist Sociological Methodologies and What They Teach Us. 22.Love, Loss and Loyalty: A Black Feminist Reading of Black Girlhood. 23.Black Feminist Epistemological Methodology: Bridging Theory and Methods to Research Health and Illness. 24.Creating Oppositional Knowledge as a Black Feminist. 25.Doing It for Ourselves: Research Justice and Black Feminist Sociology. 26.For a Black Feminist Digital Sociology. Part 5 Imagining Black Feminist Sociological Futures and What They Create for Us. 27.Allyship in the Time of Aggrievement: The Case of Black Feminism and the New Black Masculinities. 28.Theorizing Embodied Carcerality: A Black Feminist Sociology of Punishment. 29.Too Intersectional: What Black Feminism and Disability Studies Can Build Together. 30.We Major: Black Trans Feminism Fights Back. 31."Be Careful With Each Other,"and Other Lessons for Liberation. 32.On a Black Feminist Sociology of Abolition. 33.Exploring the Black Feminist Imagination. 34.Appendix A: Pedagogical Considerations for Teaching Black Feminist Sociology: Perspectives and Praxis. 35.Appendix B: Placing Ourselves-Again. 36.Appendix C: Black Feminist Sociology and Black Freedom Now.
