College Curriculum at the Crossroads

Kirsten T. Edwards is Assistant Professor of Adult and Higher Education and Women’s and Gender Studies affiliate faculty at the University of Oklahoma. She earned a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration with cognates in both Curriculum Theory and Women’s and Gender Studies at Louisiana State University. Her research merges philosophies of higher education, college curriculum, and pedagogy. More specifically, Dr. Edwards is interested in the ways that socio-cultural identity and context influence faculty, teaching, and learning in post-secondary education. She is co-editor (with Denise Taliaferro Baszile and Nichole A. Guillory) of Race, Gender, and Curriculum Theorizing: Working in Womanish Ways.Maria del Guadalupe Davidson is Associate Professor and Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, and Co-Director for the Women’s and Gender Studies Center for Social Justice at the University of Oklahoma. She earned her Ph.D. in Rhetoric from Duquesne University. She researches in the areas of rhetorical theory and criticism, black feminism, and Africana philosphical thought. Her most recent publication is Black Women, Agency, and the New Black Feminism (2017). She has co-edited several volumes including: Our Black Sons Matter: Mothers Talk about Fears, Sorrows, and Hopes (2016); Exploring Race in Predominately White Classrooms (2014); and Critical Perspectives on bell hooks (2009). She is currently working on a book about the artist Kara Walker.

• CONTENTSSeries Editor’s IntroductionAcknowledgementsIntroduction1 Pedagogical Poetics and Curricular Design in the Interracial Classroom: A Black Female Perspective 2 Somo Gente Estudiada: Creating Change Within and Outside the Walls of Academia 3 Black Feminist/Womanist Epistemologies, Pedagogies, andMethodologies: A Review of Literature 4 Academic Sapphires: College Curriculum at the Intersectionof Race, Gender, and Black Women’s Subversion 5 For Women of Color who have Considered Critical SocialTheories: When the Dominant Narrative is no Longer Enough 6 Black Women, Curriculum Design, and the Subject of Disidentification 7 Transgressing Curriculum Boundaries 8 Curriculum as Community Building, Liberation, Resistance and Empowerment: Reflections from Fifteen Years of Teaching 9 De donde tu eres: Pedagogies of a Puerto Rican Academic 10 In the Space Between Argo and Shahs of Sunset is Where I Teach 11 Teaching to Transgress: Africana Studies as a Support for Black Student Activism List of Contributors Index