Women of Color: Defining the Issues, Hearing the Voices
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Description
Discusses the issues facing women of color in contemporary society, the representation of these issues in modern American literature, and the place of women of color in higher education.
Beginning in the late 1960s, women's studies scholars worked to introduce courses on the history, literature, and philosophies of women. While these initial efforts were rather general, women's studies programs have started to give increasing amounts of attention to the special concerns of women of color. The topic itself is politically charged, and there is growing awareness that the issues facing women of color are diverse and complex. Expert contributors offer chapters on the major concerns facing women of color in the modern world, particularly in the United States and Latin America.
Each chapter treats one or more groups of women who have been underrepresented in women's studies scholarship or have had their experiences misinterpreted, including African Americans, Latina Americans, Asian Americans, and Native Americans. Women of Color includes chapters on theories related to race, gender, and identity. One section provides discussions of literature by women of color, including works by such authors as Toni Morrison and Maxine Hong Kingston. The book also focuses on the place of women of color in higher education, including chapters on women of color and the women's studies curriculum, and the role of librarians in shaping women's studies programs.
ISBN
978-0-313-31414-8
Publication Date
2001
Publisher
ABC-CLIO Greenwood
City
Westport
Disciplines
English Language and Literature
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Table of Contents
Foreword / Toni-Michelle Travis
Introduction / Diane Long Hoeveler
Theoretical Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Identity
Defining Differences: Feminism, Race Theory, and Identity Politics in the Academy / Nina Manasan Greenberg
The Uses of Silence: Notes on the "Will to Unsay" / Patti Duncan
Women Networking with Their Neighbors: The Universal Thread of Civic Activism / Janet K. Boles
Bearing Subaltern Witness: Rigoberta Menchu's Testimonio and Our Human Identity / Lance Grahn
Standpoint Epistemology and Women of Color / Jorge Valadez
Raising and Listening to Our Voices
Ethical Authority and Women Writers of Color / Mary Sullivan Haller
Postcolonial Daughters: Nairobi, Beijing, and Paule Marshall / Laura H. Roskos
Like Words for Pain/Like Water for Chocolate Mouths, Wombs, and the Mexican Women's Novel / Diane Long Hoeveler
Intersections of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Experimentation in the Autobiographical Writings of Cherr'e Moraga and Maxine Hong Kingston / Rosetta R. Haynes
Growing Up Desperately: The Adolescent ‘Other' in the Novels of Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, and Michelle Cliff / Nancy Backes
The Theater of the New World (B)Orders: Performing Cultural Criticism with Coco Fusco, Guillermo Gomez-Peña and Anna Deavere Smith / Jennifer Drake
Praxis
Curriculum Reform, Women's Studies, and Women of Color by Arlene Sgoutas
Librarians and Women's Studies Programs by Arglenda Friday