Julia Sudbury

Activist Scholarship: Antiracism, Feminism, and Social Change Julia Sudbury 1st edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Activist Scholarship and the Neoliberal University after 9/11 / Julia Sudbury, Margo Okazawa-Rey -- Part I. Revealing Complicities, Generating Insurgencies -- 1. Challenging Penal Dependency: Activist Scholars and the Antiprison Movement / Julia Sudbury -- 2. Native Studies and Critical Pedagogy: Beyond the Academic-Industrial Complex / Andrea Smith -- 3. Challenging Patriarchal Pedagogies by Strengthening Feminist Intellectual Work in African Universities / Amina Mama -- Part II. Emancipatory Methodologies -- 4. One Unit of the Past: Action Research Project on Domestic Violence in Japan / Mieko Yoshihama -- 5. Solidarity Work in Transnational Feminism: The Question of Class and Location / Linda Carty, Monisha Das Gupta -- 6. Organizing the Motley Crew and Challenging the Security of National States / Nandita Sharma, Cynthia Wright -- Part III. Teaching as Radical Praxis -- 7. Transforming Pedagogies: Imagining Internationalist/Feminist/Antiracist Literacies / Piya Chatterjee -- 8. Strange Sisters and Odd Fellows: Trans-Activisms as Antiracist Pedagogy / Bobby J. Noble -- 9. Linking Book Knowledge to Lived Experience: Incorporating Political Tours of Our Communities into Classrooms / Glenn Omatsu -- Part IV. Living with Contradictions -- 10. Three Dilemmas of a Queer Activist Scholar of Color / Michael Hames-Garcia -- 11. Solidarity with Palestinian Women: Notes from a Japanese Black U. S. Feminist / Margo Okazawa-Rey -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors. Review Citations:

Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2009 pg. 137 (EAN 9781594516085, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Sudbury, Julia Julia Sudbury is Professor of ethnic studies at Mills College, and editor of "Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison Industrial Complex" (Routledge, 2005). Contributor Bio:  Okazawa-Rey, Margo Margo Okazawa-Rey is Professor at the Fielding Graduate University and Professor Emerita at San Francisco State University. She is coeditor of "Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives, " 4th ed. (McGraw-Hill 2007).