Activist Scholarship: Antiracism, Feminism, and Social Change

by Julia Sudbury, Margo Okazawa-Rey

Overview

Can scholars generate knowledge and pedagogies that bolster local and global forms of resistance to U.S. imperialism, racial/gender oppression, and the economic violence of capitalist globalization? This book explores what happens when scholars create active engagements between the academy and communities of resistance. In so doing, it suggests a new direction for antiracist and feminist scholarship, rejecting models of academic radicalism that remain unaccountable to grassroots social movements. The authors explore the community and the academy as interlinked sites of struggle. This book provides models and the opportunity for critical reflection for students and faculty as they struggle to align their commitments to social justice with their roles in the academy. At the same time, they explore the tensions and challenges of engaging in such contested work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781594516092
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/30/2009
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Julia Sudbury, Margo Okazawa-Rey

Table of Contents

Introduction, Julia Sudbury, Margo Okazawa-Rey; Part I Revealing Complicities, Generating Insurgencies; Chapter 1 Challenging Penal Dependency, Julia Sudbury; Chapter 2 Native Studies and Critical Pedagogy, Andrea Smith; Chapter 3 Challenging Patriarchal Pedagogies by Strengthening Feminist Intellectual Work in African Universities, Amina Mama; Part II Emancipatory Methodologies; Chapter 4 “One Unit of the Past”, Mieko Yoshihama; Chapter 5 Solidarity Work in Transnational Feminism, Linda Carty, Monisha Das Gupta; Chapter 6 Organizing the Motley Crew and Challenging the Security of National States, Nandita Sharma, Cynthia Wright; Part III Teaching as Radical Praxis; Chapter 7 Transforming Pedagogies, Piya Chatterjee; Chapter 8 Strange Sisters and Odd Fellows, Bobby J. Noble; Chapter 9 Linking “Book Knowledge” to “Lived Experience”, Glenn Omatsu; Part IV Living with Contradictions; Chapter 10 Three Dilemmas of a Queer Activist Scholar of Color, Michael Hames-García; Chapter 11 Solidarity with Palestinian Women, Margo Okazawa-Rey;