Race, Gender, and Curriculum Theorizing: Working in Womanish Ways

by Denise Taliaferro Baszile Miami University (Editor), Kirsten T. Edwards (Editor), Nichole A. Guillory Kennesaw State University (Editor), Vonzell Agosto chair, Department of Educ (Contribution by), Denise Taliaferro Baszile Miami University (Contribution by)

Overview

Race, Gender, and Curriculum Theorizing: Working in Womanish Ways recognizes and represents the significance of Black feminist and womanist theorizing within curriculum theorizing. In this collection, a vibrant group of women of color who do curriculum work reflect on a Black feminist/womanist scholar, text, and/or concept, speaking to how it has both influenced and enriched their work as scholar-activists. Black feminist and womanist theorizing plays a dynamic role in the development of women of color in academia, and gets folded into our thinking and doing as scholar-activists who teach, write, profess, express, organize, engage community, educate, do curriculum theory, heal, and love in the struggle for a more just world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781498521147
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	11/15/2016
Series:	Race and Education in the Twenty-First Century
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	196
File size:	994 KB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

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

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

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