Black and Postcolonial Feminisms in New Times : Researching Educational Inequalities

ISBN-13: 9780415571685 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 152 str.

Heidi Mirza;Cynthia Joseph

Opis

This book is a compelling collection of essays on the intersection of race, gender and class in education written by leading black and postcolonial feminists of colour. Introducing new debates on transglobal female identities and cultures of resistance the book asks:

- ‘What can black and postcolonial feminisms tell us about race and gender identity in new globalising times?

-‘How are race, gender and class inequalities reproduced and resisted in educational sites?

-‘How are racial and gender differences in education experienced by black and ethnic female players?’

Using autobiography, ethnography, and critical race theory, this book assesses the impact of religion, race and sexuality on the lives of women from Asia, Africa and the Caribbean living in Britain, America, Canada, and Australia. It addresses controversial issues such as racism in the media, exclusion in higher education, and critical multiculturalism in schools.

With the gender millennium goals focused on education for women as a key lever for global change, it is a timely collection challenging the universal interconnections between race and gender identity and its integral relationship to educational opportunities. The intersection of race, gender and class is on top of the educational agenda. This book is a must for political and social commentators, academic researchers and student audiences interested in new feminist visions for new global times.

This book was previously published as a special issue of Race Ethnicity and Education

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Plotting a history: Black and postcolonial feminisms in ‘new times’  Heidi Safia Mirza  2. Postcoloniality and ethnography: negotiating gender, ethnicity and power  Cynthia Joseph  3. Identity, empathy and ‘otherness’: Asian women, education and dowries in the UK  Kalwant Bhopal  4. Embodying diversity: problems and paradoxes for Black feminists  Sara Ahmed  5. Is it because I’m Black? A Black female research experience  Uvanney Maylor  6. Black Canadian feminist thought: perspectives on equity and diversity in the academy  Njoki Nathani Wane  7. Black feminist praxis: some reflections on pedagogies and politics in higher education  Suki Ali  8. ‘Who you callin’ nappy-headed?’A critical race theory look at the construction of Black women  Gloria Ladson-Billings  9. De-colonising practices: negotiating narratives from racialised and gendered experiences of education  Ann Phoenix  10. From ‘crisis’ to ‘activist’: the everyday freedom legacy of Black feminisms  Heather A. Oesterreich

O autorze

Heidi Safia Mirza is Professor of Equalities Studies in Education, Institute of Education, University of London, UK. She is author of Young Female and Black and Race Gender and Educational Desire: Why Black women succeed and fail.

Cynthia Joseph is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Education, Monash University in Australia.