Lexington Books
Pages: 196
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Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-1-4985-2113-0 • Hardback • November 2016 • $109.00 • (£84.00)
978-1-4985-2114-7 • eBook • November 2016 • $103.50 • (£80.00)
Denise Taliaferro Baszile is associate professor of educational leadership and associate dean of Diversity and Student Experience at Miami University.
Kirsten T. Edwards is assistant professor of educational leadership and policy studies and affiliate faculty for both women’s and gender studies and the Center for Social Justice at the University of Oklahoma.
Nichole A. Guillory is associate professor of curriculum and instruction and interdisciplinary studies at Kennesaw State University.
Contents
Series Foreword
Kenneth Fasching-Varner, Roland Mitchell, and Lori L. Martin
Introduction
Where, When and How We Enter: An Introduction
Denise Taliaferro Baszile, Kirsten Edwards, and Nichole Guillory
Chapter One
Getting on with the Business of the Rest of Her Life:
Curriculum Theorizing/Writing toward Radical Black Female Subjectivity
Denise Taliaferro Baszile
Chapter Two
Ain’t Nothin’ Wrong With Cleanin’ Houses: Utterances on Southern Womanism and the Search for Our Mothers’ Gardens
Berlisha Morton
Chapter Three
Engaging Anna J. Cooper’s Rhetorical Strategies to Foster Curriculum Leadership
Vonzell Agosto
Chapter Four
Learning to (Re)member as Womanish Curricular Transcendence
Kirsten T. Edwards
Chapter Five
Shadowboxing Whiteness inside Teacher Education: Critical Race Activism to the Race-Gender Degree
Cheryl Matias
Chapter Six
Capitalizing on Critical Race Feminism and Reconceptualists’ Notions of Curriculum Theory: A Poetic Auto-ethnography of a Black Woman Academic
Theodorea Berry
Chapter Seven
#BlackWomenMatter: Intersectionality and the Legacy of Kimberle Crenshaw
Nichole Guillory
Chapter Eight
Walking with Audre Lorde: Sparks from the Dialectic
Francyne Huckaby
Chapter Nine
Crooked Sticks and Straight Licks: Strategies for Womanist Resistance and Resilience in the Dirty South
Sabrina Ross
Chapter Ten
For/Four Colored Girls Who Do Curriculum Theorizing
Denise Taliaferro Baszile, LaVada Taylor, Nichole Guillory, Tayari Kwa Salaam
About the Contributors
In this exhilarating volume. . . . womanist thinkers and scholar activists invent poetics of justice through their life writing; honor the diversities, contradictions, and complexities of knowledge, power, and difference; and transgress the epistemological, ontological, and axiological boundaries to illuminate how a recognition of Black women as living texts shatters ‘imperialist White supremacist capitalist patriarchy,’ decolonizes space and place, and cultivates generations of emergent women of color scholar activists to become the light in troubling times.
— Ming Fang He, Georgia Southern University
This collection challenges readers to bring the intellect of a new generation to bear upon questions of subjectivity, storytelling, place, and what it means to deal in raced-womanisms in this ‘moment of our now.’ . . . At the crossroads of Black curriculum orientations and feminist thought—trying to find room to think amidst the violence on black (disciplinary) bodies—these chapters are inspiration for progressive political strategies and therapy for what curriculum studies might call an era without light.
— Erik L. Malewski, Kennesaw State University
The editors and contributors of this volume confront the curriculum question—what knowledge is of most worth?—by embedding it within black history and lived experience, tracing inspirational black intellectual genealogies. Historically compelling, autobiographically searing, poetically powerful: this theoretically commanding collection is a canonical contribution everyone must study.
— William F. Pinar, University of British Columbia