Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human by Alexander G. Weheliye

philoSOPHIA ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 156-160
Author(s):  
Amber Jamilla Musser
Keyword(s):  
Black Feminist ◽  
Feminist Theories

Pushed to Teach: Pedagogies and Policies for a Black Women Educator Pipeline

2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Conra D. Gist ◽  
Terrenda White ◽  
Margarita Bianco
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Educational Equity ◽  
Black Girls ◽  
Collective Learning ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
12Th Grade ◽  
Educational Spaces ◽  
Feminist Theories

This research study examines the learning experiences of 11th- and 12th-grade Black girls participating in a precollegiate program committed to increasing the number of Teachers of Color entering the profession by viewing a teaching career as an act of social justice committed to educational equity. The pipeline functions as an education reform structure to disrupt pedagogies and policies that push Black girls out of educational spaces at disproportionate rates by instead pushing Black girls to teach. Critical race and Black feminist theories are utilized to analyze interviews from Black girls over a 5-year period of the program and composite characters are developed to spotlight key findings that allow us to (a) better understand and amplify the collective learning and social-emotional experiences of Black girls in the program, (b) highlight and critique the challenges and possibilities for positively pushing Black girls’ intellectual identities as students and future teachers via pedagogies and supports, (c) identify spaces and structures in schools that can resist and combat the marginalization of Black girls’ agency and genius, and (d) consider implications for the development of Black Women Educator pipelines.

scholarly journals Motherhood in Toni Morrison’s Sula and A Mercy: Rethinking (M)Othering

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 67-84
Author(s):  
Natália Fontes de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Cultural Discourse ◽  
Black Mothers ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Black Mother ◽  
Feminist Theories ◽  
Biological Determinants

Motherhood tends to elicit strong feelings in women as well as a passionate rhetoric in our cultural discourse. Daughters have extensively been the focus of studies about mother-daughter bonds. Surprisingly, much less attention has been given to mother figures. By tracing the theme of motherhood in Sula (1973) and A Mercy (2009), I investigate how Toni Morrison rewrites the experiences of black mothers during slavery and its aftermath in the United States. Drawing mainly on feminist and black feminist theories, I explore, through literary analysis, how motherhood assumes various forms in both novels. The comparative analysis of Sula and A Mercy challenges distorted views commonly associated with the black mother and extends notions of mothering beyond biological determinants.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Tavia Nyong'o
Keyword(s):  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Process Philosophy ◽  
Henri Bergson ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Feminist Theories ◽  
Contemporary Artist ◽  
Embodied Memory ◽  
Full Body ◽  
Post Humanism

The themes and arguments of this book are introduced in this chapter through a consideration of a contemporary artist and video-maker’s engagement with the archive through a practice of “full-body quotation.” The concept of fabulation—drawn from the process philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Henri Bergson—is introduced, and related to black feminist theories of “critical fabulation.” Feminist and queer theories of embodied memory are introduced in relation to the critique of post-humanism.

‘A pair of buttocks’ that everybody hates

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Busi Makoni
Keyword(s):  
Symbolic Power ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Feminist Theories ◽  
Systemic Violence ◽  
Naked Body

This article explores radical rudeness, a resistance strategy of deliberate rudeness to disrupt normative structures. Using the Uganda activist Dr Stella Nyanzi as a case study, I examine how women experiencing extreme structural marginalisation and systemic violence use radical rudeness in a nonlinguistic form (defiant disrobing) to speak back to power. Drawing from Black feminist theories of rage, I argue that radical rudeness is an instance of rage, not as a pernicious emotion, but as a legitimate strategy against patriarchy and dictatorial authoritarianism. I argue that Dr Stella Nyanzi’s naked protest utilises three intersecting forms of power – biopower, symbolic power and cosmological power – to resist the authoritarian Ugandan regime, turning her naked body into a powerful weapon of resistance.

scholarly journals "Because I won't ever forget"

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alisha Jean-Denis ◽  
Korina Jocson
Keyword(s):  
Black Feminist ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Collective Resistance ◽  
Feminist Theories ◽  
Trauma Informed ◽  
Black Life ◽  
The Individual

Poetry within trauma-informed literacies has been influential to understanding youth writing. As the tendency to focus on the individual rather than structures of power remains, the authors of this essay point to collective resistance and connect youth writing to other creative texts in their engagement of black life, livingness, and pedagogical possibilities. Specifically, they draw on black feminist theories and methodologies to consider race, gender, class, diaspora, and time-space in poetry and juvenilia studies. The discussion concludes with questions about learning and writing as counter-expressions.

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