This bookbegins to recognize and represent the impact of Black feminist and womanist theory in curriculum theorizing. This collection includes a vibrant group of women of color who do curriculum work to reflect on a Black feminist/womanist scholar, text, and/or concept and how it has influenced and enriched their work as scholar-activists.
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
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.