Transformation now! toward a post-oppositional politics of change / AnaLouise Keating.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keating, AnaLouise, 1961- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist theory.

Social justice--United States.

Social justice.

Identity politics.

United States.

Women's studies--United States.

Women's studies.

Difference (Psychology).

Identity (Psychology)--United States.

Identity (Psychology).

Minority women--United States.

Minority women.

Multiculturalism--United States.

Multiculturalism.

Identity politics--United States.

Physical Description:

xvi, 262 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Urbana ; Chicago ; Springfield : University of Illinois Press, 2013.

Summary:

In this lively, thought-provoking study, AnaLouise Keating writes in the traditions of radical U.S. women-of-color feminist/womanist thought and queer studies, inviting us to transform how we think about identity, difference, social justice and social change, metaphysics, reading, and teaching. Through detailed investigations of women-of-color theories and writings, indigenous thought, and her own personal and pedagogical experiences, Keating develops transformative modes of engagement that move through oppositional approaches to embrace interconnectivity as a framework for identity formation, theorizing, social change, and the possibility of planetary citizenship. Considering a series of examples in which worlds collide because of race, class, gender, sexuality, belief, and other identifications, she explores how a post-oppositional approach yields unlikely yet fruitful dialogues and transformational possibilities. Speaking to the political, ethical, social, spiritual, intellectual, and pedagogical dimensions of contemporary scholarship, activism, and social justice work, Transformation Now! calls for and enacts innovative, radically inclusionary ways of reading, teaching, and communicating. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction. Post-oppositional resistance?

Beyond intersectionality: theorizing interconnectivity with/in This bridge called my back: writings by radical women of color

"American" individualism, variations on a theme; or, self-reliance, transformed?

"I am your other I": transformational identity politics

"There is no arcane place for return": revisionist mythmaking with a difference

From self-help to womanist self-recovery; or, how Paula Gunn Allen changed my mind

Pedagogies of invitation: from status-quo stories to cosmic connections

Appendix 1. Abridged syllabus for a U.S. women of colors course / Reannae McNeal

Appendix 2. Guidelines for a workshop on Our spoken word: poetry for self community / Erica Granados de la Rosa.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-251) and index.

ISBN:

9780252037849

0252037847

9780252079399

0252079396

OCLC:

843858223