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... are some of the ways that this can be done? Background Information TEACHING BEYOND MYTHS AND LEGENDS On September 17,1849, a young enslaved woman made a decision to run away, leaving her parents, siblings, and husband behind. Although she had been born enslaved (she was the daughter of slaves, Ben Ross...

...Rachel Lee Copyright © 2000 by Wesleyan University Press 2000 IN THE TRENCHES Notes from the (non)Field Teaching and Theorizing Women of Color RACHEL LEE Wewerenot bornwomenofcolor,but became womenofcolorhere. - JacquiAlexandearndChandraMohanty In their introduction to FeministGenealogieCso...

... are inherently and primarily pedagogical, the accompanying lesson plan attempts to explore the multiple ways Indigenous and race-radical women of color feminists learn, teach, and organize about carceral logics and prison abolition inside and outside the classroom in a manner that teaches against the grain...

... are inherently and primarily pedagogical, the lesson plan explores the ways we learn, teach, and organize in a manner that teaches against the grain of carceral common sense. Copyright © 2016 Smith College 2016 prison abolitionist praxis race-radical feminist praxis Indigenous decolonial feminisms...

... of the extraordinary institution—John Jay College of Criminal Justice—at which she has long challenged New York City “cops” to put into practice what she teaches. Copyright © 2010 by Smith College 2010 Roundtablein Celebrationof BlancheWiesenCook,American HistoricalAssociation, San Diego, California,January7-10...

...Shoba Sharad Rajgopal Abstract Courses regarding race, gender, and representation are not easy to teach under any circumstances, but even more so in predominantly white classrooms in the post 9/11 U.S. where the masses have been fed a diet of xenophobic, anti-Asian propaganda inculcating an “us...

... in academic writing. This article explores how teaching language/dialect difference in majority white school settings, using contrastive-analysis techniques such as code switching may have highly negative effects on African American Language (AAL) speakers. Code-switching maintains that AAL and other “non...

... women are situated as social agents in society. Using the pocket diaries of Emilie Frances Davis, a 19 th century freeborn woman, as both a teaching tool and a forensic historical investigatory tool, students will examine the ideas of black feminism and actively apply it as a lens to interpret essays...

...Stephanie Troutman; Ileana Jiménez Abstract This coauthored article examines the ways in which teaching Black feminism in both high school and undergraduate contexts can inspire Black feminist activism in young Black women and girls. Using the work of bell hooks as a foundation for designing...

...Shoba Sharad Rajgopal Abstract Courses regarding race, gender, and representation are not easy to teach under any circumstances, but even more so in predominantly White classrooms in the post 9/11 United States, where the masses have been fed a diet of xenophobic, anti-Asian propaganda inculcating...

... inspire teachers and students to transcend the notion of the classroom as a static, constrained, and unliberated space. By using the lens of transdisciplinarity , Rethinking Meridians examines Black feminist theory as a teaching tool and a pedagogical practice that challenges teachers to connect the work...

... to offer a methodological intervention that challenges several ways in which castelessness is reproduced in feminist scholarship. The author asks why savarna write castelessly. “Writing castelessly,” wherein caste reflexivity is absented from analysis, solidarity, and teaching, is one manifestation...

... that will teach their students how to write personal narratives and transform them into digital technologies for social engagement, innovation, and intervention. The goal of the lesson plan is to allow teachers to engage deeply with the essay and to then determine and develop the best strategies for helping...

... lives who, like our Aunties, have kindness shining in their eyes and endless supplies of love, care, and encouragement for us. We deserve to be surrounded by Aunties who model for us what it means to be a strong, fierce, gentle loving example of a person who carries our people’s teachings not only...

...Karsonya Wise Whitehead Copyright © 2016 Smith College 2016 K.ARSONYA WISE WHITEHEAD RethinkingMeridiansa:s a Critical KnowledgeProject,a Pedagogical Offering,and a BlackFeminist QuiltedNarrative1 Education as a Form of Liberation With the increasingly high stakes nature of teaching...

... at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Emory University and she teaches "Women's Health and Development" in Morehouse School of Medicine's Master of Public Health Program. SONIA FEIGENBAUM is currently on leave from her Assistant Professor of Spanish position at the University of St. Thomas, Minnesota. She...

... Copyright © 2014 by Smith College 2014 ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS CARRINE. BAKEiRs an associate professor in the Program for the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College. She teaches and writes on law, public policy, and social movements. Her book, TheWomen'sMovement A,gainsSt exualHarassmen...

..., 1991)and ofResistingCitizenship: FeministEssayson Politics,Community,and Democrac(yRoutledge, forthcoming). Her research and teaching focus on the nature and structure of political communities, and, in particular, on patterns of power and participation within them. LAURIEANN GUERRERO'Spoems have...

... and Social]ustice Program for the Brazil Office of the Ford Foundation. She is working on a new book, tentativelyentitled Contentiou(sTrans).formationsF:eminisRt eadingosfCivilSociety, SocialMovementasndTransnationaOl rganizingin LatinAmerica. AMRITABASU,a memberofthe MeridianEs ditorialBoard, teaches...

... JUDE G. AKUDINOBI teaches cinema in the Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His essays on African cinema have appeared in Iris;TheBlackScholarN; ka:JournalofContemporarAyfrican Art;SocialIdentities;ThirdText;and Researcihn AfricanLiteraturesa,mong other...