1st Edition
A Decolonial Black Feminist Theory of Reading and Shade Feeling the University
By Andrea N. Baldwin
Copyright 2022
180 Pages
by
Routledge
180 Pages
by
Routledge
180 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book uses a decolonial Black feminist lens to understand the contemporary significance of the practices and politics of indifference in United States higher education. It illustrates how higher education institutions are complicit in maintaining dominant social norms that perpetuate difference. It weaves together Black feminisms, affect and queer theory to demonstrate that the ways in which... Read more
Introduction 1. Reading the University: Coloniality and the Making of the Human 2. Yearning, the Politics of Indifference and the Apathetic Methodology of Power 3. Feeling Inclusion/Exclusion 4. Reading Toward Aspiration: A Black Feminist Shad(e)y Theoretics and the Politics of Elsewhere and Whatever Conjecture Not Conclusion: Decoloniality, the Poetics of Science and Curation Ethics in "Our" Creolized Elsewhere Spaces
Biography
Andrea N. Baldwin is an Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Africana Studies in the Department of Sociology at Virginia Tech, USA.
