Race, Gender, and Curriculum Theorizing

Denise Taliaferro Baszile is associate professor of educational leadership and associate dean of Diversity and Student Experience at Miami University.Kirsten T. Edwards is assistant professor of educational leadership and policy studies and affiliate faculty for both women’s and gender studies and the Center for Social Justice at the University of Oklahoma.Nichole A. Guillory is associate professor of curriculum and instruction and interdisciplinary studies at Kennesaw State University.

• ContentsSeries ForewordKenneth Fasching-Varner, Roland Mitchell, and Lori L. MartinIntroduction Where, When and How We Enter: An Introduction Denise Taliaferro Baszile, Kirsten Edwards, and Nichole GuilloryChapter OneGetting on with the Business of the Rest of Her Life: Curriculum Theorizing/Writing toward Radical Black Female Subjectivity Denise Taliaferro Baszile Chapter TwoAin’t Nothin’ Wrong With Cleanin’ Houses: Utterances on Southern Womanism and the Search for Our Mothers’ GardensBerlisha Morton Chapter Three Engaging Anna J. Cooper’s Rhetorical Strategies to Foster Curriculum LeadershipVonzell Agosto Chapter FourLearning to (Re)member as Womanish Curricular TranscendenceKirsten T. EdwardsChapter FiveShadowboxing Whiteness inside Teacher Education: Critical Race Activism to the Race-Gender DegreeCheryl MatiasChapter SixCapitalizing on Critical Race Feminism and Reconceptualists’ Notions of Curriculum Theory: A Poetic Auto-ethnography of a

In this exhilarating volume. . . . womanist thinkers and scholar activists invent poetics of justice through their life writing; honor the diversities, contradictions, and complexities of knowledge, power, and difference; and transgress the epistemological, ontological, and axiological boundaries to illuminate how a recognition of Black women as living texts shatters ‘imperialist White supremacist capitalist patriarchy,’ decolonizes space and place, and cultivates generations of emergent women of color scholar activists to become the light in troubling times.