Special Issue Black Feminism – Free Download

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The Fall 2016 Special Issue of Departures in Critical Qualitative Research “Cultivating Promise and Possibility: Black Feminist Thought as an Innovative, Interdisciplinary, & International Framework” is now available via the link below for FREE DOWNLOAD! Populated by four essays, four forum essays, and a reflective Afterword authored by Patricia Hill Collins, the contributors are united by their commitments to critical and qualitative research and use of Black Feminist Thought as a catalyst for theorization, advocacy, and alliance. These essays offer nuanced interpretations of the value of black women and black girls and black feminists and black feminist epistemologies.

http://dcqr.ucpress.edu/content/5/3

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

Cultivating Promise and Possibility: Black Feminist Thought as an Innovative, Interdisciplinary, & International Framework by Rachel Alicia Griffin, Guest Editor

ESSAYS

Cracking Up Time: Black Feminist Comedic Performance and Queer Temporalities in the Standup of Wanda Sykes by Katelyn Hale Wood

The Shape of Angels’ Teeth: Toward a Blacktransfeminist Thought Through the Mattering of Black(Trans)Lives by Marquis Bey

Black Feminist Thought as Methodology: Examining Intergenerational Lived Experiences of Black Women by Ashley Patterson, Valerie Kinloch, Tanja Burkhard, Ryann Randall, and Arianna Howard

The Ekwe Collective: Black Feminist Praxis by Joelle Cruz, Oghenetoja Okoh, Amoaba Gooden, Kamesha Spates, Chinasa A. Elue, and Nicole Rousseau FORUM Spiritual Activism, Visionary Pragmatism, and Threshold Theorizing: An Anzaldúan Meditation with Black Feminist Thought by AnaLouise Keating

A Journey from Willful Ignorance to Liberal Guilt to Black Feminist Thought by Kristin Waters

Arab and Black Feminisms: Joint Struggle and Transnational Anti-Imperialist Activism by Nadine Naber

Black Feminist Reflections on Activism: Repurposing Strength for Self-Care, Sustainability, and Survival by Karla D. Scott

AFTERWORD Black Feminist Thought as Oppositional Knowledge by Patricia Hill Collins