Black Feminist Sociology: Perspectives and Praxis (Sociology Re-Wired)

"Black Feminist Sociology offers new writings by established and emerging scholars working in a Black feminist tradition. The book centers Black feminist sociology within the sociology canon and widens is to feature Black feminist sociologists both outside the U.S. and the academy. Inspired by a BFS lens, the essays are critical, personal, political and oriented toward social justice. Key themes include the origins of Black feminist sociology, 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"-- Provided by publisher Black Feminist Sociology offers new writings by established and emerging scholars working in a Black feminist tradition. The book 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 essays 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. Cover 1 Half Title 4 Series 5 Title 6 Copyright 7 Dedication 8 Contents 10 List of Contributors 14 Foreword 21 Acknowledgements 22 Editorial Assistants’ Reflection 24 Introduction: Black Feminist Sociology Is the Past, Present and Future of Sociology. Period. 26 Part 1 Revisiting Legacies of Black Feminist Sociology and How They Ground Us 42 1 Black Feminist Sociology: An Interview With Patricia Hill Collins 44 2 The Black Feminist Roots of Scholar-Activism: Lessons From Ida B. Wells-Barnett 57 3 The Radical Black Feminism Project: Rearticulating a Critical Sociology 70 4 The Language Through Which Black Feminist Theory Speaks: A Conversation With Jennifer C. Nash 82 Part 2 Black Feminist Sociological Communities and How They Speak to Us 96 5 Reflections on Re-Creating Biological Race and the Entrapment of Black People 98 6 Centering Us: What Doing Black Feminist Sociology Really Looks Like 111 7 Nothing About Us, Without Us: Reinscribing Black Feminism in Sociology 122 8 #BlackGirlMagic and Its Complexities 135 9 Learning, Teaching, Re-Membering and Enacting Black Feminist Sociology at a Black Women’s College: Love Letters to One Another 146 Part 3 Black Feminist Sociology Epistemologies and What They Reveal to Us 162 10 Black Feminist Sociology and the Politics of Space and Place at the Intersection of Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality 164 11 Global Health and BFS: Diasporic Research and Interventions Rooted in Advocacy 176 12 Family Background and the Meanings of Economic Autonomy for Black Lesbian Women 188 13 “Kantsaywhere”: Black African Women Inside the Australian Racial Crucible 198 14 Black Feminist Piety: A Framework for Engaging Islam in Black Feminist Sociology 207 Part 4 Black Feminist Sociological Methodologies and What They Teach Us 220 15 Love, Loss and Loyalty: A Black Feminist Reading of Black Girlhood 222 16 Black Feminist Epistemological Methodology: Bridging Theory and Methods to Research Health and Illness 232 17 Creating Oppositional Knowledge as a Black Feminist 242 18 Doing It for Ourselves: Research Justice and Black Feminist Sociology 253 19 For a Black Feminist Digital Sociology 265 Part 5 Imagining Black Feminist Sociological Futures and What They Create for Us 276 20 Allyship in the Time of Aggrievement: The Case of Black Feminism and the New Black Masculinities 278 21 Theorizing Embodied Carcerality: A Black Feminist Sociology of Punishment 292 22 Too Intersectional: What Black Feminism and Disability Studies Can Build Together 302 23 We Major: Black Trans Feminism Fights Back 316 24 Exploring the Black Feminist Imagination 325 Appendix A: Placing Ourselves 335 Appendix B: Black Feminist Sociology and Black Freedom Now 340 Black Feminist Sociology offers new writings by established and emerging scholars working in a Black feminist tradition. The book centers Black feminist sociology (BFS) within the sociology canon and widens is to feature Black feminist sociologists both outside the US and the academy. Inspired by a BFS lens, the essays 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 book offers writings by established and emerging scholars working in a Black feminist tradition, widening the sociology canon to feature Black feminist sociologists both outside the US and the academy - exploring their sociological legacy of intellectual development to raise critical questions of thought and self-reflexivity.