1st Edition

Decolonial Arts Praxis Transnational Pedagogies and Activism

Edited By Injeong Yoon-Ramirez, Alejandra I. Ramírez Copyright 2024
174 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

174 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

174 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Decolonial Arts Praxis: Transnational Pedagogies and Activism illustrates the productive potential of critical arts pedagogies in the ongoing work of decolonization by engaging art, activism, and transnational feminisms. Offering contributions from scholars, educators, artists, and activists from varied disciplines, the volume highlights how arts can reveal intersectional forms of oppression,... Read more

1. Introduction: Decolonial Arts, Pedagogies, and Activism across Borders
Alejandra I. Ramírez & Injeong Yoon-Ramirez

2. The Black School: A Radical Space for Art, Pedagogy, and Social Transformation
Dipti Desai

3. Ghost Rider: Performing Fugitive Indigeneity
Ka’ila Farrell-Smith

4. Peju Layiwola: A Multigenerational African-Centered Womanist Art, Theory, and Praxis
Janine A. Sytsma

5. Walking Detroit: Witnessing the Tracks of History in Place
JeeYeun Lee

6. Reflejando Historias: Collective Action in Conversation with the Chicago ACT Collective
Paulina Camacho Valencia

7. Dreaming a Decolonial Praxis: Dreams, Visual Interpretations, and Decolonial Aesthetics
Alejandra I. Ramírez

8. Quiet as Refusal: Feelings in Decolonial Arts Pedagogy
Injeong Yoon-Ramirez

9. Imagining Otherwise and an End to Structures of Supremacy
Lizbett Benge

10. Ch’ixi Women Narratives: Walking toward a Decolonial Aesthetics
Vania Alejandra Rueda Cañizares & Margarita Rodríguez Ornelas

11. Las Cartas de las Nadie/The Letters from Nobody: Poetry Workshop as a Liberatory Art Praxis, Interview with Lisa Mirella Corti
Injeong Yoon-Ramirez & Lisa Mirella Corti

Biography

Injeong Yoon-Ramirez is an endowed associate professor of Art Education and Affiliate Faculty in Gender Studies at the University of Arkansas, USA.

Alejandra I. Ramírez is an assistant professor of Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy Studies and an affiliate faculty member for Mexican American Studies and Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley in Brownsville, USA.