Twenty-First-Century Feminist Classrooms : Pedagogies of Identity and Difference

This anti-racist feminist anthology brings together diverse and challenging theoretical perspectives on the experiences of radical educators who work to redefine pedagogies for communicating the claims of both insurgent disciplines—Women's Studies, African-American Studies, Latino Studies, Ethnic Studies, Queer Theory, etc.—and radicalized versions of traditional areas of study—History, Sociology, Foreign Languages, Literature, Philosophy. The authors’ analyses of where and how feminist teachers stand in the fray of conflictive classroom dynamics and institutional politics lead them to outline new inquiries into feminist pedagogy highlighted by an intense focus on identity, experience, and difference. In doing so, Twenty-First Century Feminist Classrooms opens a space for engaged feminist self-criticism that seeks to reinvigorate pedagogical practices grounded in multicultural feminist identities. This book is centrally concerned with crucial theoretical and practical aspects of teaching in the national and global borderlands of gender, race, and sexuality studies. The cross-cultural feminist focus of this anthology allows the contributors to consider the various ways in which global and national frameworks intersect in the classroom and in students' thinking, and also the ways in which power and authority are developed, directed, and deployed in the feminist classroom. This volume provides a critical elaboration of provocative, self-reflexive questions for feminist cultural and intellectual practice for the 21st century. In doing so, the volume provides a site for engaged feminist self-criticism for the specific purpose of reinvigorating a critical pedagogical practice grounded in multicultural feminist identities. '...the authors articulate new methods for understanding and centralizing the function of experience and identity in the classroom...' - L.R. Baxter, Choice 'This collection of essays sets forth a bold and important challenge.' - Feminist Academic Press Column Publisher's description: This anti-racist feminist anthology brings together diverse and challenging theoretical perspectives on the experiences of radical educators who work to redefine pedagogies for communicating the claims of both insurgent disciplines--Women's Studies, African-American Studies, Latino Studies, Ethnic Studies, Queer Theory, etc.--and radicalized versions of traditional areas of study--History, Sociology, Foreign Languages, Literature, Philosophy. The authors2 analyses of where and how feminist teachers stand in the fray of conflictive classroom dynamics and institutional politics lead them to outline new inquiries into feminist pedagogy highlighted by an intense focus on identity, experience, and difference. In doing so, Twenty-First Century Feminist Classrooms opens a space for engaged feminist self-criticism that seeks to reinvigorate pedagogical practices grounded in multicultural feminist identities Front Matter....Pages i-viii Introduction....Pages 1-28 Front Matter....Pages 29-29 Toward a Pedagogy of Coalition....Pages 31-57 Unleashing the Demons of History....Pages 59-85 Student Resistance and Nationalism in the Classroom....Pages 87-107 Front Matter....Pages 109-109 Feminist Pedagogy and the Appeal to Epistemic Privilege....Pages 111-133 Negotiating Subject Positions in a Service-Learning Context....Pages 135-154 Antiracist Pedagogy and Concientización ....Pages 155-173 Queer Theory and Feminist Pedagogy....Pages 175-200 Front Matter....Pages 201-201 “white girls” and “Strong Black Women”....Pages 203-231 Teaching (About) Genocide....Pages 233-249 Decentering the White and Male Standpoints in Race and Ethnicity Courses....Pages 251-279 Representation, Entitlement, and Voyeurism....Pages 281-298 Back Matter....Pages 299-312 Toward a pedagogy of coalition -- Betty Sasaki Unleashing the demons of history -- Susan Sánchez-Casal Student resistance and nationalism in the classroom -- Michiko Hase Feminist pedagogy and the appeal to epistemic privilege -- Amie A. Macdonald Negotiation subject positions in a service-learning context -- Tamara Williams and Erin McKenna Antiracist pedagogy and concientización -- Maria Eva Valle Queer theory and feminist pedagogy -- Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz White girls and strong black women -- Allison Dorsey Teaching (about) genocide / Bat-Ami Bar on -- Decentering the white and male standpoints in race and ethnicity courses -- Margaret Hunter Representation, entitlement, and voyeurism-- Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz. In the very recent history of the academic institution where I have taught for the greater part of the last decade, a group of students of color and their white allies took over the president's office to protest institutional racism. We are proposing a new paradigm for feminist educators by reevaluating the significance and application of identity theory in feminist pedagogy. Edited By Amie A. Macdonald And Susan Sánchez-casal. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.