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Calls for and enacts innovative, radically inclusionary ways of reading, teaching, and communicating.

Table of Contents

CoverTitle PageCopyrightContentsGIVING THANKSIntroduction. Post-Oppositional Resistance? Threshold Theories Defined and Enacted1. Beyond Intersectionality: Theorizing Interconnectivity with/in This Bridge Called My Back:2. “American” Individualism, Variations on a Theme; or, Self-Reliance, Transformed!3. “I am your other I”: Transformational Identity Politics4. “There is no arcane place for return”: Revisionist Mythmaking with a Difference5. From Self-Help to Womanist Self-Recovery: or, How Paula Gunn Allen Changed My Mind6. Pedagogies of Invitation: From Status-Quo Stories to Cosmic ConnectionsAppendix 1. Abridged Syllabus for a U.S. Women of Colors CourseAppendix 2. Guidelines for a Workshop on Our Spoken Word: Poetry for Self and CommunityNotesWorks Cited and ConsultedIndex

About the Author

AnaLouise Keating is a professor of women's studies at Texas Woman's University and the author of Teaching Transformation: Transcultural Classroom Dialogues and other books.

Reviews

"This truly unique and exciting study uses the writings of U.S. women of color to transform the ways in which we do academic and political work, positing a model of interconnectivity between the individual and the community as an alternative to identity politics. The book will appeal to intellectuals interested in social justice of any kind." --Suzanne Bost, author of Encarnacion: Illness and Body Politics in Chicana Feminist Literature