Building Womanist Coalitions

Gary L. Lemons is a professor of English at the University of South Florida. He is the author of Caught Up in the Spirit! Teaching for Womanist Liberation, Womanist Forefathers: Frederick Douglass and W. E. B. Du Bois, and Black Male Outsider, a Memoir: Teaching as a Pro-Feminist Man.

• TitleCopyrightContentsForeword AnaLouise KeatingIntroduction: "Womanist Is to Feminist as Purple Is to Lavender": Writing in Solidarity across ShadePart I. Teaching in the "Universal[ist]" Spirit of Womanism1. Spirituality in the Classroom: Some Womanist Reflections / Layli Maparyan2. Coming into Being: Metta to Womanist Teachers / Kendra N. Bryant3. Professing the Liberatory Power of Womanism / Gary L. Lemons4. A Doctored Voice: Resistance, Reading, and Righting as Womanist Pedagogy / Ylce IrizarryPart II. Womanist Alliances for Human Rights and Social Justice5. Breaking Silence / M. Jacqui Alexander and Beverly Guy-Sheftall6. From Exile to Healing: I "Too" Am a Womanist / Susie L.Hoeller7. Nepantlera as Midwife of Empathy / Paul T. Corrigan8. A Deeper Shade of Consciousness: My Voice Is My Resistance / Atika ChaudharyPart III. Speaking and Acting Out in Womanist Solidarity9. Transgenero Performance: Gender and Transformation in Mujeres en Ritual / Dora Arreola10. Soy Mujer Cuando . . . A Collective Poem / Andrea Assaf11. Now Is Not the Time for Silence: Writing and Directing What the Heart Remembers / Fanni V. Green12. "I Come from a Dream Deferred" / Erica C. Sutherlin13. On Becoming a Feminist / Rudolph P. Byrd14. Compelled by the Spirit: My Journey to Become a Womanist Man / M. Thandabantu IversonContributorsIndex

"Innovative, creative, and unapologetically spiritual, Building Womanist Coalitions reminds us why womanism is still as relevant today as it was several decades ago when Alice Walker first coined the term."--David Ikard, author of Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs"Building Womanist Coalitions is a helplful resource for an instructor interested in better understanding womanist readings and or methodologies into the classroom." --Wabash Center Journal on Teaching