Black Women's Liberatory Pedagogies : Resistance, Transformation, and Healing Within and Beyond the Academy

"This interdisciplinary anthology sheds light on the frameworks and lived experiences of Black women educators. Contributors for this anthology submitted works from an array of academic disciplines and learning environments, inviting readers to bear witness to black women faculty's classroom experiences, as well as their pedagogical approaches both inside and outside of the higher education classroom that have fostered transformative teaching-learning environments. Through this multidimensional lens, the editors and contributors view instruction and learning as a political endeavor aimed at changing the way we think about teaching, learning, and praxis."-- Provided by publisher Front Matter ....Pages i-xxiii Introduction (Olivia N. Perlow, Durene I. Wheeler, Sharon L. Bethea, BarBara M. Scott)....Pages 1-18 Front Matter ....Pages 19-19 The Curriculum That Has No Name: A Choreo-pedagogy for Colored Girls Seeking to Fly over the Rainbow (Toni C. King)....Pages 21-44 Black Skin, White Masks: Negotiating Institutional Resistance to Revolutionary Pedagogy and Praxis in the HBCU (Zoe Spencer)....Pages 45-63 Black Women Academics and Senior Managers Resisting Gendered Racism in British Higher Education Institutions (Cecile Wright, Uvanney Maylor, Valerie Watson)....Pages 65-83 Stories of Migration: Passing Through, Crossing Over, and Decolonial Transgressing in Academyland (Kirsten T. Edwards)....Pages 85-100 Gettin’ Free: Anger as Resistance to White Supremacy Within and Beyond the Academy (Olivia N. Perlow)....Pages 101-123 Black Women’s Co-Mentoring Relationships as Resistance to Marginalization at a PWI (Andrea N. Baldwin, Raven Johnson)....Pages 125-140 Front Matter ....Pages 141-141 Teaching and Learning Philosophical “Special” Topics: Black Feminism and Intersectionality (Kathryn T. Gines, A. Marie Ranjbar, Edward O’Byrn, Eyo Ewara, William Paris)....Pages 143-158 Teaching Reproductive Justice: An Activist’s Approach (Loretta J. Ross)....Pages 159-180 Close/Bye: Staging [State] Intimacy and Betrayal in ‘Performance of Literature’ (Stephanie Leigh Batiste)....Pages 181-194 The Quality of the Light: Evidence, Truths, and the Odd Practice of the Poet-Sociologist (Eve L. Ewing)....Pages 195-209 Black Queer Feminism as Praxis: Building an Organization and a Movement (Janaé E. Bonsu)....Pages 211-224 Front Matter ....Pages 225-225 Calling on the Divine and Sacred Energy of Queens: Bringing Afrikan Indigenous Wisdom and Spirituality to the Academy (Derise Tolliver Atta)....Pages 227-244 Healing Through (Re)Membering and (Re)Claiming Ancestral Knowledge About Black Witch Magic (Lakeesha J. Harris)....Pages 245-263 Another Lesson Before Dying: Toward a Pedagogy of Black Self-Love (Denise Taliaferro Baszile)....Pages 265-279 Healing Circles as Black Feminist Pedagogical Interventions (Jennifer L. Richardson)....Pages 281-294 Kuja Nyumbani (Coming Home): Using African-Centered Pedagogy to Educate Black Students in the Academy (Sharon L. Bethea)....Pages 295-319 Afterword: Giving Life—Black Women’s Liberatory Praxis (Helen A. Neville)....Pages 321-324 Back Matter ....Pages 325-331 This interdisciplinary anthology sheds light on the frameworks and lived experiences of black women faculty in the academy. Contributors for this anthology submitted works from an array of academic disciplines and learning environments, inviting readers to bear witness to black women faculty's classroom experiences, as well as their pedagogical approaches both inside and outside of the higher education classroom that have fostered transformative teaching-learning environments. Through this multidimensional lens, the editors and contributors view instruction and learning as a political endeavor aimed at changing the way we think about teaching, learning. and praxis