Diasporic Womanist Sociology

Sancha Doxilly Medwinter, Ph.D., is a diasporic womanist sociologist and community-based researcher. Her most recent book is Ecologies of Inequity: How Disaster Response Reconstitutes Race and Class Inequality. She is also a co-author of Caribbean Womanism: Decolonial theorizing of Caribbean women’s oppression, survival, and resistance.Tannuja Rozario Latchminarain, Ph.D., is a diasporic womanist activist and scholar. Her work has focused on the reproductive health experiences of Indo-Caribbean women and women in conflict zones in Africa. She has published in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Social Science and Medicine, and International Sociology. Dr. Latchminarain is also an adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, where she teaches courses on gender.Monisha Issano Jackson is a Ph.D. student in Sociology at Georgia State University. She has published work on queer urban spaces and intersecting oppressions as well as the experiences of microaggressions for multiracial Black and Asian people. She is currently conducting research on queer Black women’s experiences of LGBTQ+ night-time spaces in the United Kingdom.

• Introduction - Cultivating a Diasporic Womanist Consciousness Part One- Sociology as Diasporic Womanist Vocational Praxis Chapter1: Decolonising Higher Education: A Diasporic Womanist Analysis of Universities, Graduate Student Training, and Curricula Development Chapter 2: Decolonizing Student-Teacher Relations - A Diasporic Womanist Praxis of Pedagogy and Mentorship Chapter 3: Decolonizing Research - A Reflexive Journey of A Caribbean Womanist Ethnographer working with Woweta Indigenous Women in Guyana.Part Two: Diasporic Womanist Perspectives on Birthing and Mothering Chapter 4: A Labor of Love: The Historical and Contemporary Formation of Black Birthing Hush Harbors through a Womanist Lens Chapter 5: Reproductive Journeys of Indo-Caribbean Women: An Indo-Caribbean Womanist Perspective Chapter 6: Violence Against Women: An Afro-Brazilian Womanist PerspectivePart Three: Diasporic Womanist Cosmological and Ecological Centering Chapter 7: Let’s Talk Womanist Behaviors: A Conversation on the Nature of Black Women’s Community Organizing Traditions and Ethics of Care in Continuation of Maroon Spaces Chapter 8: June Jordan’s Terraforming: A Diasporic Womanist’s Visionary Solution Chapter 9: Colonial Ecologies in a Black Farming Community: An Eco-Womanist Spiritual Activist AutoEthnographyPart Four: Outside The Ivory: Showcasing Everyday Diasporic Womanist Activism Chapter 12: Black Subaltern Self-Actualization: A Jamaican Diasporic Womanist in the Non-Profit World, Dr. Shauna Knox Chapter 13: An Afro-Jewish Biracial Doula Antiracist Public Educator, Dr. Megan Madison Chapter 14: An Interdisciplinary Cultural Activist, Jalessah T. Jackson

“Diasporic Womanist Sociology is a much-needed, field-shifting intervention that recenters Global South and diasporic knowledges, elevating spiritual and community epistemologies, and naming a decolonial praxis for research, teaching, and collective action. Its womanist methodology, rooted in history, dialogue, reflexivity, healing, and justice, bridges the academy and community and models research justice in motion. Impressive in its breadth and depth, the book invites us into a deeply ethical sociology that is built on accountability, reciprocity and justice.”Julia Chinyere Oparah, Professor of Sociology and Leadership Studies, University of San Francisco“Medwinter, Latchminarain, and Jackson make a stunning contribution to the constitution of Diasporic Womanist Sociology as a field and community of scholars. Grounded in vivid personal histories and provocative discussions of theory, methodology and pedagogical praxis, the volume offers rich case studies from the global South and its diaspora to illustrate the power of womanist decolonial struggles. Its stories help us reimagine the nature of intersectional resistance and the futures that it could bring into being.”Millie Thayer, Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and author of Transnational Feminist Itineraries: Situating Theory and Activist Practice (2021) “In this innovative volume, the editors and authors seek to decolonize not just their research, but their teaching, mentoring, and, really, their lives. In this work, the authors and editors take us on a journey of lived experience and on a path towards creating an entirely new way of being a sociologist and doing sociology. This collective diasporic womanist project is a must read for those interested in bridging the gap between academia and community.”Tiffany Taylor, Professor of Sociology, Kent State University