Venus E. Evans-Winters is Associate Professor of Education in the Department of Educational Administration and Foundations at Illinois State University. She holds a Doctorate in educational policy studies and a Masters degree in school social work from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests are school resilience, urban education, critical race theory, critical pedagogy, and feminism(s).
Bettina L. Love is an award-winning author and Associate Professor of Educational Theory & Practice at the University of Georgia. She is the author of Hip Hop's Li'l Sistas Speak: Negotiating Hip Hop Identities and Politics in the New South. Her work has appeared in numerous books and journals, including the English Journal, Urban Education, The Urban Review, and Journal of LGBT Youth.

Contents: Ruth Nicole Brown: A Praisesong for Johnnie - Lameesa W. Muhammad/Andrea L. Tyler/Adonica Jones-Parks/Lara Chatman: Navigating Inhibited Spaces: Black Female Scholars' Re-articulation of Knowledge Production in the Academy - Angela N. Campbell: «Out of the Mouths of Babes»: Using Cynthia Dillard's Endarkened Feminist Epistemology to Reveal Unseen Gendered Passageways - Darlene Russell/Lisa Hobson/Denise Taliaferro-Baszile: Rising Harriett Tubmans: Exploring Intersectionality and African American Women Professors - Kyra T. Shahid: Eating from the Tree of Life: An Endarkened Feminist Revelation - Carla R. Monroe: Colorist Dimensions of Black Feminist Knowledge - Tuwana T. Wingfield: (Her)story: The Evolution of a Dual Identity as an Emerging Black Female and Scholar - Ezella McPherson: Having Our Say in Higher Education: African American Women's Stories of «Doing Science» Through Spiritual Capital - Kyra D. Gaunt: Truly Professin' Hip-Hop - The Rewind (1996): Makin' Black Girls Embodied Musical Play the Teacher - Roberta P. Gardner: If You Listen, You Will Hear: Race, Place, Gender, and the Trauma of Witnessing Through Listening in Research Contexts - Venus E. Evans-Winters: Black Feminism in Qualitative Education Research: Karla Manning/Adrienne Duke/Philip Bostic: Me, Myself, and I: Exploring African American Girlhood Through an Endarkened (Photographic) Lens - Amira Millicent Davis: Embodying Dillard's Endarkened Feminist Epistemology - Monique Lane: Black Girl Interrupted: A Reflection on the Challenges, Contradictions, and Possibilities in Transitioning from the Community to the Academy - Billye Sankofa Waters: «Oh, You'll Be Back»: Bridging Identities of Race, Gender, Educator, and Community Partner in Academic Research - Corrie L. Theriault: Lessons Learned Through Double-Dutch: Black Feminism and Intersectionality in Educational Research - Qiana M. Cutts: Responsibility, Spirituality, and Transformation in the (For-Profit) Academy: An Endarkened Feminist Autoethnography - Bettina L. Love/Venus E. Evans-Winters: Why We Matter: An Interview with Dr. Cynthia Dillard. (Nana Mansa II of Mpeasem, Ghana, West Africa).

In Black Feminism in Education: Black Women Speak Back, Up, and Out, authors use an endarkened feminist lens to share the ways in which they have learned to resist, adapt, and re-conceptualize education research, teaching, and learning in ways that serve the individual, community, nation, and all of humanity. Chapters explore and discuss the following question: How is Black feminist thought and/or an endarkened feminist epistemology (EFE) being used in pre-K through higher education contexts and scholarship to marshal new research methodologies, frameworks, and pedagogies? At the intersection of race, class, and gender, the book draws upon alternative research methodologies and pedagogies that are possibly transformative and healing for all involved in the research, teaching, and service experience. The volume is useful for those interested in women and gender studies, research methods, and cultural studies.