Full Description
The Power and Freedom of Black Feminist and Womanist Pedagogy: Still Woke celebrates and reaffirms the power of Black feminist and womanist pedagogies and practices in university classrooms. Employing autocritography (through personal reflection, research, and critical analysis), the contributors to the volume boldly tell groundbreaking stories of their teaching experiences and their evolving relationships to Black feminist and womanist theory and criticism. From their own unique perspectives, each contributor views teaching as a life-changing collaborative and interactive endeavor with students. Moreover, each of them envisions their pedagogical practice as a strategic vehicle to transport the legacy of struggles for liberating, social justice and transformative change in the U.S. and globally. Firmly grounded in Black feminist and womanist theory and practice, this book honors the herstorical labor of Black women and women of color intellectual activists who have unapologetically held up the banner of freedom in academia.
Contents
Preface: Reaffirming the Power and Joy of Black Feminist and Womanist Thought, Gary L. Lemons and Cheryl R. Rodriguez
Introduction: Embracing Transformation: Welcoming Wholeness and Truth into Our Classrooms, Cheryl R. Rodriguez and Gary L. Lemons
Part I: "I Am"—Pedagogies of Resistance, Liberation, and Transformation
Chapter One: The Radical Work of Teaching for Justice: Black Feminist Pedagogy for 21st Century Thought and Activism, Cheryl R. Rodriguez
Chapter Two: Teaching as Liberatory Praxis: Learning to Shed Fear and Transcend Structures of Domination in the Classroom, Hanna Garth
Chapter Three: Teaching Relationality: Pedagogies Across Asymmetries of Racialization and Colonization, Quynh Nhu Le
Chapter Four: I am that, too: Integrating the Black Woman into the First Year Composition Classroom, Kendra N. Bryant
Part II: Education "as the Practice of Freedom": Holding on to bell hooks' Pedagogical Legacy
Chapter Five: Still Becoming Me: My Journey through bell hooks' Vision of "Engaged Pedagogy", La-Toya Scott
Chapter Six: I Ain't No Damned Pedagogue: Reevaluating my Stance in the Classroom from a Black Feminist Perspective and Reclaiming my Mother Tongue, Maggie Romigh
Chapter Seven: You Poured Your Soul into This Work: A Dialogue in the Spirit of Self-Transformation, Paul T. Corrigan
Chapter Eight: Teaching to Progress: bell hooks, Radical Roots and Branches, Scott Neumeister
Part III: Black Male Radical (His)Stories: Teaching to Survive
Chapter Nine: Remembering Intersectional Interventions Teaching to Reclaim Human Rights Legacies, M. Thandabantu Iverson
Chapter Ten: Working Overtime: My Mother and Black Feminists' Embodied Narrative Inheritance, Marquese McFerguson
Chapter Eleven: A Pedagogical Awakening: My Pro-Womanist His-Story, Vincent Adejumo
Chapter Twelve: The Past and Future Diversities of HBCUs: Queerness and the Institutional Fulfillment of Black Studies, Roderick A. Ferguson
Chapter Thirteen: Postscript: Professing Our Love for Social Justice "Committed to Survival and Wholeness of Entire People", Gary L Lemons and Cheryl Rodriguez
About the Contributors
