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Back to the Drawing Board
African-Canadian Feminisms
Edited by Njoki Nathani Wane, Katerina Deliovsky, Erica Lawson
November 2002
Print ISBN: 9781894549172
Overview
What are the fundamental tenets of African-Canadian feminism? What are the elements of feminist theory that have contributed to African-Canadian feminist thought? African-American feminists have influenced thinking and writing in Canada. As well, Black-Canadian feminists have published on a wide range of issues relating to Black women's lives, history and experience. Back to the Drawing Board builds on this existing literature and maps out a new space in which to articulate a stronger vision of African-Canadian feminism. While the essays focus on key concepts and debates that underlie Black feminist theory and challenge the dominant structures that continue to exclude Black women, the objective is to bring the plurality of African-Canadian women's voices and experiences into the centre of analysis.
Table of Contents
AcknowledgementsForeword – Zanana AkandeIntroduction – Njoki Nathani Wane, Katerine Deliovsky and Erica LawsonPart I: Theorizing FeminismsChapter One: Black-Canadian Feminist Thought: Drawing on the Experiences of My Sisters – Njoki Nathani WaneChapter Two: The More Things Change ... Rethinking Mainstream Feminism – Katerina DeliovskyChapter Three: Criticism, Reconstruction and African-Centred Feminist Historiography – Tamari KitossaChapter Four: Black Women and Work in Nineteenth-Century Canada West: Black Woman Teacher Mary Bibb – Afua CooperPart II: Education and ActivismChapter Five: Black Women in Graduate Studies: Transforming the Socialization Experience – Dolana MagoadimeChapter Six: Reconceptualizing Our Classroom Practice: Notes from an Anti-Racist Educator – Grace MathiesonChapter Seven: Carving Out Critical Space: African-Canadian Women and the Academy – Njoki Nathani WanePart III: The Social GazeChapter Eight: Images in Black: Black Women, Media and the Mythology of an Orderly Society – Erica LawsonChapter Nine: Spirit-Murdering the Messenger: The Discourse of Fingerpointing as the Law's Response to Racism – Patricia J. WilliamsChapter Ten: Transgressive Whiteness: The Social Construction of White Women Involved in Interracial Relationships with Black Men – Katerina DeliovskyChapter Eleven: Brief Reflections toward a Multiplicative Theory and Praxis of Being – Adrien Katherine WingPart IV: Indigenous ConnectionsChapter Twelve: African Women and Spirituality: Harmonizing the Balance of Life – Njoki Nathani WaneChapter Thirteen: Living Well within the Context of Indigenous Education – Brenda FirmanChapter Fourteen: Reclaiming Identity: Native Wombyn's Reflections on Wombma-Based Knowledge and Spirituality – Barbara WaterfallBibliographyContributors
