Activist scholarship : antiracism, feminism, and social change / edited by Julia Sudbury and Margo Okazawa-Rey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Oparah, Julia Chinyere.

Okazawa-Rey, Margo.

Series:

Transnational feminist studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social movements.

Social problems.

College teachers--Political activity.

College teachers.

College students--Political activity.

College students.

Physical Description:

x, 236 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boulder : Paradigm Publishers, [2009]

Contents:

Part I Revealing Complicities, Generating Insurgencies

1 Challenging Penal Dependency: Activist Scholars and the Antiprison Movement / Julia Sudbury 17

2 Native Studies and Critical Pedagogy: Beyond the Academic-Industrial Complex / Andrea Smith 37

3 Challenging Patriarchal Pedagogies by Strengthening Feminist Intellectual Work in African Universities / Amina Mama 55

Part II Emancipatory Methodologies

4 "One Unit of the Past": Action Research Project on Domestic Violence in Japan / Mieko Yoshihama 75

5 Solidarity Work in Transnational Feminism: The Question of Class and Location / Linda Carty, Monisha Das Gupta 95

6 Organizing the Motley Crew and Challenging the Security of National States / Nandita Sharma, Cynthia Wright 111

Part III Teaching as Radical Praxis

7 Transforming Pedagogies: Imagining Internationalist/Feminist/Antiracist Literacies / Piya Chatterjee 131

8 Strange Sisters and Odd Fellows: Trans-Activisms as Antiracist Pedagogy / Bobby J. Noble 149

9 Linking "Book Knowledge" to "Lived Experience": Incorporating Political Tours of Our Communities into Classrooms / Glenn Omatsu 167

Part IV Living with Contradictions

10 Three Dilemmas of a Queer Activist Scholar of Color / Michael Hames-Garcia 189

11 Solidarity with Palestinian Women: Notes from a Japanese Black U.S. Feminist / Margo Okazawa-Rey 205.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781594516085

1594516081

OCLC:

226355638