Full Description
College Curriculum at the Crossroads explores the ways in which college curriculum is complicated, informed, understood, resisted, and enriched by women of color. This text challenges the canon of curriculum development which foregrounds the experiences of white people, men and other dominant subject positions. By drawing on Black, Latina, Queer, and Transnational feminism, the text disrupts hegemonic curricular practices in post-secondary education. This collection is relevant to current conversation within higher education, which looks to curriculum to aid in the development of a more tolerant and just citizenry. Women of color have long theorized the failures of injustice and the promise of inclusion; as such, this text rightly positions women of color as true "experts in the field."
Across a variety of approaches, from reflections on personal experience to application of critical scholarship, the authors in this collection explore the potency of women of color's presence with/in college curriculum and emphasize a dire need for women of color's voices at the center of the academic process.
Contents
CONTENTS
Series Editor's Introduction
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Pedagogical Poetics and Curricular Design in the Interracial
Classroom: A Black Female Perspective
2 Somo Gente Estudiada: Creating Change Within and Outside
the Walls of Academia
3 Black Feminist/Womanist Epistemologies, Pedagogies, and
Methodologies: A Review of Literature
4 Academic Sapphires: College Curriculum at the Intersection
of Race, Gender, and Black Women's Subversion
5 For Women of Color who have Considered Critical Social
Theories: When the Dominant Narrative is no Longer Enough
6 Black Women, Curriculum Design, and the
Subject of Disidentification
7 Transgressing Curriculum Boundaries
8 Curriculum as Community Building, Liberation, Resistance
and Empowerment: Reflections from Fifteen Years of Teaching
9 De donde tu eres: Pedagogies of a Puerto Rican Academic
10 In the Space Between Argo and Shahs of Sunset is
Where I Teach
11 Teaching to Transgress: Africana Studies as a Support for
Black Student Activism
List of Contributors
Index
