Description
This timely and informative volume centres how global Black feminist narratives of care are important to our contemporary theorizing and highlights the transgressive potential of a critical transnational Black feminist pedagogical praxis.
This text not only details how such praxis can be revolutionary for the academy but also provides poignant examples of the student scholarship that can be produced when such pedagogy is applied. Drawing on narratives from Black women around the globe, the book features chapters on pedagogy, mentorship, art, migration, relationships, and how Black women make sense of navigating social and institutional barriers. Readers of the text will benefit from an interdisciplinary, global approach to Black feminisms that centres the narratives and experiences of these women. Readers will also gain knowledge about the historical and contemporary scholarship produced by Black women across the globe.
This book is an invaluable resource for scholars and researchers, including graduate students in Caribbean feminisms, Black feminisms, transnational feminism, sociology, political science, the performing arts, cultural studies, and Caribbean studies.
Table of Contents
0. Home-Grown and Grounded: Black Caribbean Feminist Pedagogies in Global Conversation
Andrea N. Baldwin and Tonya Haynes
SECTION I: Black Feminisms: Sites of Black Feminist Existence
1. Women’s Studies After Wynter: Teaching Gender and Development Studies in a Gender-Conscious Caribbean
Tonya Haynes
2. The Geography of Healing at the End of the World: Black Scholar Practitioners Who Evoke Toni Morrison’s The Clearing
Kimberly Nicole Williams
3. Public Scholarship as B(l)ack Talk: African Feminist Collaborations in the Academy and Online
Rachel Afi Quinn and Maurine Ogonnaya Ogbaa
SECTION II: Black Women’s Lived Experiences in Our Contemporary Societies
4. Mothering in Neo-liberal Contexts: Caribbean Women’s Experiences
Daniele Bobb
5. Psychosocial Uncertainty: Making Sense of Institutional Suffering in Trinidad and Tobago
Leslie Robertson Foncette
6. Black Favela Feminism: The Struggle for Survival as a Transformative Praxis
Andreza Jorge
SECTION III: Black Feminist Activism: A Worldmaking Praxis of Care
7. Subversive Knowledges and Praxes of Black Immigrants in the United States: Reflections from a Scholar-Advocate
Nana Afua Yeboaa Brantuo
8. The Women. They Were Plotting Too: Declaring our Independence in the Spirit of Sankofa
Barby Asante
9. Critical Transnational Queer Praxis: Perspectives on (Re)Production, Performance, and Punishment in the Academy
Andrea N. Baldwin and Alexandra Chandra
SECTION IV: Black Feminisms and Healing Futures
10. ‘Tacit Sexualities’ Transforming the Narrative: Afro-Caribbean Women and the Politics of the Body
Evette Burke
11. University Plantation Il/logics: Black Women’s Fugitivity and Futurity in the Wake of COVID-19 and the Global Anti-racist Uprisings of 2020/21
Andrea N. Baldwin
Afterword
Julia Jordan-Zachary
