Black and Postcolonial Feminisms in New Times

Researching Educational Inequalities

Heidi Mirza, Cynthia Joseph

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781138347410
• eBook ISBN: 9781317987178
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Inclusive Education

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 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.

Introducing new debates on transglobal female identity and cultures of resistance the book asks:

• How does black and postcolonial feminisms illuminate race and gender identity in new global times?
• How are race, gender and class inequalities reproduced and resisted in educational sites?
• How do women of colour experience race and gender differences in schools and universities?

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 published as a special issue of Race, Ethnicity and Education.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• CONTENTS
• Notes on Contributors
• 1. Introduction: Plotting a history: Black and postcolonial feminisms in new times
• 2. Postcoloniality and ethnography: negotiating gender, ethnicity and power
• 3. Identity, empathy and ‘otherness’: Asian women, education and dowries in the UK
• 4. Embodying diversity: problems and paradoxes for Black feminists
• 5. Is it because I’m Black? A Black female research experience
• 6. Black Canadian feminist thought: perspectives on equity and diversity in the academy
• 7. Black feminist praxis: some reflections on pedagogies and politics in higher education
• 8. ‘Who you callin’ nappy-headed?’ A critical race theory look at the construction of Black women
• 9. De-colonising practices: negotiating narratives from racialised and gendered experiences of education
• 10. From ‘crisis’ to ‘activist’: the everyday freedom legacy of Black feminisms
• Index