...Michelle Rowley In this paper I examine Jacqui Alexander's Pedagogies of Crossing in order to consider the interdisciplinary synergies that might be realized through a practice of knowledge production which bridges the metaphysical and the material. While the text encourages us to pursue the Sacred...

...Luis Othoniel Rosa This essay studies how the writings and praxis of loud-reading in tobacco factories of the Puerto Rican anarcha-feminist Luisa Capetillo (1882–1922) exemplifies what can be called a “pedagogy of unruliness.” This hypothesis is that unruliness is a teachable form of knowledge...

... the tongue, curtailing linguistic looseness” ( Noises , 40). This kind of claim holds its own ambivalence, given Carolyn’s own vibrant textuality on the page. [email protected] © 2024 by Small Axe, Inc. 2024 Carolyn Cooper pedagogy UWI Mona Caribbean feminisms It was something...

...M. Jacqui Alexander This essay stages a meeting among the authors of the three reflections on Pedagogies of Crossings . Using danger and desire as the tropes of entry, it returns to Pedagogies by way of wrestling with their most salient preoccupations: the need for a visible pedagogy of the erotic...

...Peter James Hudson This essay reconsiders Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972) via a discussion of Rodney’s pedagogy and his methodology. The essay inquires into the relevance of Rodney’s pedagogy and what it means to teach the book in the contemporary moment. To that end...

...Faith Smith This essay discusses Jacqui Alexander's Pedagogies of Crossing as framing an analysis of the curtailment of erotic autonomy in the United States and the Caribbean, the failures of liberal feminism and academia, and the propensity for military intervention, with an examination...

... often reinforces a false dichotomy between a rational “West” and its irrational “others.” Specifically, Chamoiseau’s memoir both portrays creole magical beliefs as a vehicle through which its school-aged protagonists resist the ideology of neocolonial pedagogies, and it consistently refers to aspects...

...Hazel V. Carby Reflecting on arguments and insights in the discussion essays by Eddie Chambers, Marisa Fuentes, and Marc Matera on the author’s Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands , this response essay focuses on the dilemma of black feminist critique, practice, methodology, and pedagogy...

... is complicated by the multiple meanings of the word history and by the underrepresentation of West Indian history in either literature or pedagogy until the nationalist period. Baugh's primary example for negotiating the quarrel is Derek Walcott, and the analysis can be supplemented and extended by including two...

... and community and a collectivized vision-making that is not circumscribed by feminist engagement with the state. Small Axe Incorporated 2007 BOOK DISCUSSION Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred by M. Jacqui Alexander. Durham: Duke University Press...

..., Democratic Futures (1997), and the author of Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory and the Sacred (2005). She is currently at work on two projects: one that continues writing the life of Kitsimba (the character she develops in Pedagogies); the other examines...

..., and the African diaspora. TRANSFORMATIONS THE JOURNAL OF INCLUSIVE SCHOLARSHIP AND PEDAGOGY Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy is a peer- reviewed journal published semi-annually by New Jersey City University. It is an interdisciplinary forum for pedagogical...

... Coloniality,” the title of the first chapter, is a key category in her “cartography of debt,” a central strategy in her analysis of the modern/colonial matrix of power (44). A main move is a counterpoint of Lazzarato’s “indebted man as a failed neoliberal subject” with Ariadna Godreau-Aubert’s “pedagogy...

... of sacred knowledge and the communities that preserve it in “Pedagogies of the Sacred: Making the Invisible Tangible,” the final chapter of her tour de force text Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred . 43 Following Alexander’s lead, I ask simply...

... of configuring new ways of being and knowing and to plot the different metaphysics that are needed to move away from living alterity premised in difference to living intersubjectivity premised in relationality and solidarity. —M. Jacqui Alexander, Pedagogies of Crossing There is perhaps no one who has...

... in the Caribbean and what was once considered aberrant sexuality—particularly as it relates to women. Works such as Carolyn Cooper's Sound Clash (2004), Kamala Kempadoo's Sexing the Caribbean (2004), M. Jacqui Alexander's Pedagogies of Crossing (2005), Omise'eke Tinsley's Thiefing Sugar (2010), and Faith...

... as a historicopolitical space had already started even prior to me entering university. Thinking back to that time, and now teaching in the Netherlands, I have become keenly aware of the project of anticolonial pedagogies in Jamaica. If the questions of what the geopolitical space of the Caribbean is and how...

... theoretical models and methodologies. A far from exhaustive list would include M. Jacqui Alexander’s Pedagogies of Crossing , Paget Henry’s Caliban’s Reason , Silvio Torres-Saillant’s An Intellectual History of the Caribbean , and Hanétha Vété-Congolo’s L’interoralité caribéenne . 5 To give a sense...

... and multilingual pedagogies. Glyne GriFFith is a professor of English at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He is the author, most recently, of The BBC and the Development of Anglophone Carib- bean Literature, 1943 1958 (2016), and he serves on the editorial team of the Journal of West Indian...

... of pedagogy about imagery and visualizing practices that are active and transformative. Caribbean visual culture may be considered in light of contemporaneous civil movements, recognizing globalized practices as contaminating most circuits of social life. Central to research and exploration of criticality...