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... in the academy where very good ideas could be supported even though they fell outside the mainstream. When I was at Princeton (1983–1989; 1991–1995), I looked for the people who couldn’t get their ideas through, for those gems of whom the academy was distrustful. I tried to look beyond what I thought...

... as a growing affirmation of gender-plural identities across the world. In the academy, however, Transfeminism continues to be sidelined, not making waves beyond the interdisciplinary research areas of Transgender studies and queer studies. The research field of international politics continues to subscribe...

... minoritized women in the U.S. academy to reflect on how this colonial legacy has shaped not only their identities but also their identifications—how and with whom they identify. The authors demonstrate what they refer to as a love letter approach that enables them to foster connection, healing...

... work is grounded within particular and fragmented locations that blur various lines and multiple layers of coloniality. This article offers a critical reflection of the invisibility in working on Indigeneity in southwest Asia within the structural imperatives of the academy. It takes up each...

... of feminist, Black feminist, womanist, and intersectional approaches. My call to action encourages us to move this paradigm-shifting work forward by strategically building networks inside the academy, engaging communities outside of the academy, and being mindful of our own health. A reminder of the history...

... of Audre Lorde, Toni Cade Bambara, Sherley Anne Williams, and far too many other black women in and around the academy to whom cancer had laid claim in recent years. Sherley Anne's death was so recent, in fact, so sudden, and so close (herofficewas across the hall from mine at UC San Diego) that I...

... of the civil rights movement in which I was an active participant. I had observed health disparities firsthand and understood the underlying structural and cultural reasons for them. Once in academia, I stayed, and after forty years I am still embedded, even post-"retirement" a few years ago. The academy has...

...Ruth J. Simmons Copyright © 2000 by Wesleyan University Press 2000 Foreword The American academy undeniably has been shaped by the individual scholars and teachers whose knowledge, values, cultures, ideologies, and preferred approaches have determined not only what is studied in our colleges...

... Christian's 1994 essay entitled "Diminishing Returns: Can Black Feminism(s) Survive the Academy?" haunts me fourteen years after its publication. In it, Christian addresses the question of the future of black feminism by examining the many barriers-material, institutional, intellectual-that deny new...

... and self-definition did not fit into conventional discourses on gender. Feminist scholarship has more recently rethought this homogenization of women, and it has moved significantly toward a more complex analysis of women's differentiated lives, including those in the academic community. In the academy...

... groundbreaking "Double Jeopardy," which, according to BeverlyGuy-Sheftall, was the most anthologized essay of the early years of the women's liberation movement. That movement paved the way for race and gender studies in the academy, and in many ways, it was black women scholars who were first charged...

... I had never formally studied. I realized quite quickly that this was true of many of my generation of teachers. However, arriving from the U.K. in 1980, I did not immediately appreciate how new the discipline of African American studies was in the academy. Nonetheless the dual process of working...

... and agency of the communities that museums represent. This essay is part of a dissertation currently in progress at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, with the support of the Austrian Academy of Sciences-ÖAW. 1 On September 15, 2001, the Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien was reopened...

... read class across the boundaries of a particular nation-state context. In other words, it is worth recognizing that when third-world academics, who are upper-class in their home contexts, enter the US academy, they are located, because of US racism, in the giant pool of "people of color" or "black...

... ofintersectionality as theory and elucidating metaphor. Tomlinson argues that "white reception ofintersectional thinking" inside the academy repeatedly distorts intersectionality's explicit movement beyond accepting white women's subjectivity as the universal, fixed, and generative center of feminisms. She argues...

... Center. The second day of the conference began with the panel "Colonizing and Decolonizing Practices in Academia," and focused on the experiences of women of color in the academy. Jacqui Alexander, Ruthie Gilmore, Minoo Moallem, and Gina Dent each addressed the ways in which academic institutions reenact...

..., Blanche Wiesen Cook is also celebrated for helping to kick open the closets of the academy, specifically the historical profession, specifically regarding lesbianism. In 1979, she published two revolutionary articles, "The Historical Denial ofLesbianism: A Review Essay" (Cook 1979a) and "'Women Alone Stir...

... feminist research agenda to produce knowledge about our history in Colombia. TOWARD AN AFRODIASPORIC FEMINIST RESEARCH AGENDA Recent scholarship argues that historical patterns of exploitation, domination, and subordination have determined contemporary positions of Black women in politics, the academy...

... of these debates across ethnic and national boundaries as well as across traditional disciplinary boundaries in the academy. While we acknowledge our U.S.-based academic location, Meridianesncourages work that contributes to the understanding of women's experiences throughout the world. Feminist scholarship byand...