Spirit, space & survival : African American women in (white) academe / edited by Joy James & Ruth Farmer ; foreword by Angela Y. Davis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

James, Joy, 1958- editor.

Farmer, Ruth, 1953- editor.

Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944- writer of foreword.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women--Education (Higher).

African American women.

African American college teachers.

African American college administrators.s.

Discrimination in higher education--United States.

Discrimination in higher education.

United States.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 293 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Spirit, space, and survival: African American women in (white) academe

Spirit, space & survival: African American women in academe

Spirit, space and survival: African American women in academe

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 1993.

Summary:

This book examines the dilemmas and contributions of African American women struggling with Eurocentric disciplines, students, faculty and administrators in predominantly white institutions.

Contents:

Spirt. Mixed Blood, New Voices / Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees. Carrying on / Joyce Scott. African Philosophy, Theory, and "Living Thinkers" / Joy James

Space. American Studies: Melting Pot or Pressure Cooker? / Elizabeth Hadley Freydberg. Teaching Comparative Social Order and Caribbean Social Change / Helán E. Page. Making Room for Emancipatory Research in Psychology: A Multicultural Feminist Perspective / Kim Vaz. Deconstructing, Reconstructing, and Focusing our Literary Image / Nagueyalti Warren. Teaching Theory, Talking Community / Joy James

Survival. The Revolution Within: Transforming Ourselves / Patricia Coleman-Burns. African American Women Teachers Speak About Child Abuse / Dianne Smith. Balancing the Personal and Professional / Adrianne R. Andrews. Place but not Importance: The Race for Inclusion in Academe / Ruth Farmer. Conclusion.

Syllabi and Proposals. Audiovisual Resources / Nagueyalti Warren. Visitation Workshop / Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees. Teaching Grant for Develoopment of Women, Race, Class, and Community (WORCC)-Seminar / Joy James. Black Women in America / Elizabeth Hadley Freydberg. Caribbean Social Order: The Evolution of Contemporary Gender, Race, and Class Contraditions in the Western African Diaspora / Helán E. Page. The Psychology of Women / Kim Marie Vaz. Survey Black Women's Fiction / Nagueyalti Warren. Black Social and Political Thought: Theory and Practice: Black Social Movement / Patricia Coleman-Burns. Curriculum Study / Dianne Smith. Women of the African Diaspora / Adrianne Andrews.

Notes:

"Covoer design: Trudi Gershenov. Cover art: Detail from '3 Generations Quilt 2' by Joyce J. Scott."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-289).

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

0415906369

0415906377

OCLC:

27171759