Preface: Reaffirming the Power and Joy of Black Feminist and Womanist Thought, Gary L. Lemons and Cheryl R. Rodriguez
Introduction: Embracing Transformation: Welcoming Wholeness and Truth into Our Classrooms, Cheryl R. Rodriguez and Gary L. Lemons
Part I: “I Am”—Pedagogies of Resistance, Liberation, and Transformation
Chapter One: The Radical Work of Teaching for Justice: Black Feminist Pedagogy for 21st Century Thought and Activism, Cheryl R. Rodriguez
Chapter Two: Teaching as Liberatory Praxis: Learning to Shed Fear and Transcend Structures of Domination in the Classroom, Hanna Garth
Chapter Three: Teaching Relationality: Pedagogies Across Asymmetries of Racialization and Colonization, Quynh Nhu Le
Chapter Four: I am that, too: Integrating the Black Woman into the First Year Composition Classroom, Kendra N. Bryant
Part II: Education “as the Practice of Freedom”: Holding on to bell hooks’ Pedagogical Legacy
Chapter Five: Still Becoming Me: My Journey through bell hooks’ Vision of “Engaged Pedagogy”, La-Toya Scott
Chapter Six: I Ain't No Damned Pedagogue: Reevaluating my Stance in the Classroom from a Black Feminist Perspective and Reclaiming my Mother Tongue, Maggie Romigh
Chapter Seven: You Poured Your Soul into This Work: A Dialogue in the Spirit of Self-Transformation, Paul T. Corrigan
Chapter Eight: Teaching to Progress: bell hooks, Radical Roots and Branches, Scott Neumeister
Part III: Black Male Radical (His)Stories: Teaching to Survive
Chapter Nine: Remembering Intersectional Interventions Teaching to Reclaim Human Rights Legacies, M. Thandabantu Iverson
Chapter Ten: Working Overtime: My Mother and Black Feminists’ Embodied Narrative Inheritance, Marquese McFerguson
Chapter Eleven: A Pedagogical Awakening: My Pro-Womanist His-Story, Vincent Adejumo
Chapter Twelve: The Past and Future Diversities of HBCUs: Queerness and the Institutional Fulfillment of Black Studies, Roderick A. Ferguson
Chapter Thirteen: Postscript: Professing Our Love for Social Justice “Committed to Survival and Wholeness of Entire People”, Gary L Lemons and Cheryl Rodriguez
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