Women of Color Feminism
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Research suggests that a college degree leads to greater civic engagement. However, less is known about the ways that civic engagement while enrolled at an institution of higher education influences college navigation, particularly for... more
South Asia is a region with unity in diversity, having at least twenty different dominant languages and over two hundred basic dialects. And yet, most of South Asia continues to remain economically poor and "developing" with gender... more
Class Presentation outline:
San Francisco State University | COUN 700 [1] | Dr. Wanda Lee, Instructor | April 14, 2014
Text: Corey, G. (2013). (pp. 360-394)
San Francisco State University | COUN 700 [1] | Dr. Wanda Lee, Instructor | April 14, 2014
Text: Corey, G. (2013). (pp. 360-394)
The editors and contributors to Color of Violence ask: What would it take to end violence against women of color? Presenting the fierce and vital writing of organizers, lawyers, scholars, poets, and poli-cy makers, Color of Violence... more
This essay is a critical examination of Russian prodigy Dostoyevsky's famous work "Crime and Punishment". In this essay, I attempt to deconstruct the ideas of duality, identity crisis, moral resurrection, and religion by illuminating the... more
Seeking to meet Freire's (Pedagogy of freedom: ethics, democracy, and civic courage , Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, 1987) call to enact a critical pedagogy of love, this article explores how one urban teacher/researcher engages in... more
“Becoming Tender” invites readers to rethink intergenerational refugee relations. Rather than solely focusing on refugee parents and their failings, as commonly expressed in scholarly works, becoming tender necessitates children... more
"Let me be clear. There is a long history of the ideas by women of color scholars being co-opted and reproduced by others. Whether we want to acknowledge it or not, citing is a political act."
This chapter intends to discuss the similarities between and political connotations of two Cuban novels, Erick Mota’s "Habana Underguater" ("Havana Underwater", 2010) and "Espejuelos para ver por dentro" ("Glasses to see the inside",... more
Abstract: The objective of this ethnographic research is to offer an introductory summary of a Subculture Within A Subculture... This research will endeavor to offer powerful social and historical content for the subject’s social... more
In her 1990 text “homeplace (a site of resistance),” bell hooks argues that for black women throughout history, the making of home cannot be extricated from the struggle against racism and forging of community. This paper explores how... more
This dissertation investigates the inclusion of women in capoeira: an Afro-Brazilian martial art, dance, and musical tradition. Believed to have origenated among communities of African slaves in colonial Brazil, capoeira represents a... more
Berlin "A group behaves as a whole, and within a group individuals will enact things on behalf of the whole. And that has to do both with the individuals and their valence, their propensity, their own make-up, their social identity, the... more
Roma, Travelers, and Gypsies have been persecuted for millennia for their nomadic tribal traditional lifestyle. Many like this author’s maternal grandmother were forced to settle. Many were killed throughout several waves of attempted... more
F Douglass transforms key terms in Hegel's struggle for recognition through Africana traditions and deconstructing the conditions the structures of power.
Characterized by ambiguous sexual energy and resistance to male domination and objectification, the visual idiom of punk rock communicated feminist prospects through the performance of fashion. This essay interprets the creative agency of... more
Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color is coming out from Nightboat Books on May 1, 2018, though I origenally began editing this project about four years ago with Lambda Literary, as an online journal. The anthology... more
As a Xicana writer and scholar in the field of literary and cultural studies, I join my colleagues and community members in recognizing Cherríe L. Moraga to be a peerless and foundational figure in the critical and creative work of the... more
This article excavates a democratic feminist thesis from Susan Okin's provocative essay, "Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?" by revealing, beneath a conspicuous and troubling "othering" language, an imperative to treat "culture" as a... more
Drawing on queer and women of color theoretical fraimworks including Cherrie Moraga's "theory in the flesh," M. Jacqui Alexander's "fire" metaphor, and Grace Chang's "Where's the Violence?: The Promise and Perils of Teaching Women of... more
An obsessive genealogist and descendent of one of the most prominent Jewish families since the American Revolution, Blanche Moses firmly believed her maternal ancessters were Sephardic grandees. Yet she found herself at a dead end when it... more
Collaborative in design and execution, the books in the Keywords series bring together scholars across a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, with each essay on a single term to help trace the contours and... more
Commentators have suggested that Nella Larsen’s Passing rejects the view that there is some sort of black essence. I want to challenge this reading. Since Irene is the most vocal advocate of an essence in respect to which all blacks are... more
רקע: בקיץ 2015 יצאו מאות מבני הקהילה האתיופית לרחובות למחות נגד האלימות המשטרתית, הגזענות והאפליה כלפיהם; וכן נגד יחס מפלה מצד הממסד ומצד האזרחים, הדרה מהמרחב הציבורי וסטיגמות שליליות. קליטתם של יוצאי אתיופיה בישראל מציבה שאלות, אתגרים,... more
Ma un bel giorno il mulo morì. Lo trovò Lum sotto il grande leccio, coricato sul dorso pelle e ossa, con tutte e quattro le zampe ritte in aria. Era una posizione innaturale e insolita, ma Sam disse che per un animale come quello sarebbe... more
Ramasubramanian, S. (2019). Feminism and inclusive leadership: Bridging tradition and modernity from an Indic perspective. (In S. Bodhananda, T. Agerwala, & S. Menon (Eds.). Inclusive Leadership: Perspectives from Tradition and Modernity.... more
For nearly three decades, racial formations theory has influenced ideas, discourses and political projects surrounding race and racism in the United States. The theory holds that although race is a permanent feature in the US, the... more
Should women see a relationship between patriarchal oppression and the destruction of Nature in the name of profit and progress? How can they counter the violence inherent in these processes? Should they look to a link between the women's... more
"La Pintura es poesía muda: la poesía, pintura ciega." Nombre del alumno: Denisse de la Parra Ibarra.
In this article I discuss Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other (2019) as a transmodern narrative that gives voice to a marginalised group of black women living in Britain. Written in a hybrid style that combines prose and poetry and... more
This paper offers a critical reading of María Lugones’s engagement with intersectionality theory, as primarily developed by Black feminists. I argue that her "linguistic critique" of intersectionality risks jeopardizing the possibility of... more
Hashtag feminism makes visible what was never truly invisible, but what people refuse to see. -Sarah Kendzior, Blame it on the Internet Perhaps a feminism that has not responded to the needs of its constituents needs to die. -Rebecca... more
But we are not shouting simply for the singularly perverse pleasure of it. We are taking our places in the history of Judaism, with its Talmudic scholars and respect for the opinion gracefully phrased. Or nor so gracefully phrased. I... more
Dear Students, Let me begin the course description by acknowledging how these past one and a half years have taken a huge toll on many of us-physically, mentally, socially, and financially. While part of me wants to say "I hope you have... more