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.
Table of Contents
CONTENTS
Series Editor’s Introduction
By Michael W. Apple
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Kirsten T. Edwards and Maria del Guadalupe Davidson
1 Pedagogical Poetics and Curricular Design in the Interracial
Classroom: A Black Female Perspective
By Catherine John Camara
2 Somo Gente Estudiada: Creating Change Within and Outside
the Walls of Academia
by Norma Marrun
3 Black Feminist/Womanist Epistemologies, Pedagogies, and
Methodologies: A Review of Literature
By Altheria Caldera
4 Academic Sapphires: College Curriculum at the Intersection
of Race, Gender, and Black Women’s Subversion
by Kirsten T. Edwards
5 For Women of Color who have Considered Critical Social
Theories: When the Dominant Narrative is no Longer Enough
By OiYan Poon, Ester Sihite, Natasha Turman, Briellen Griffin,
and Devita Bishundat
6 Black Women, Curriculum Design, and the
Subject of Disidentification
By Maria del Guadalupe Davidson
7 Transgressing Curriculum Boundaries
By Nichole Guillory
8 Curriculum as Community Building, Liberation, Resistance
and Empowerment: Reflections from Fifteen Years of Teaching
by Bridget Turner Kelly
9 De donde tu eres: Pedagogies of a Puerto Rican Academic
By Mirelsie Velazquez
10 In the Space Between Argo and Shahs of Sunset is
Where I Teach
By Roksana Alavi
11 Teaching to Transgress: Africana Studies as a Support for
Black Student Activism by Danielle Wallace
List of Contributors
Index
