The Conscious Cultural Worker

Counter-Narratives of Black Women Artivists as Radical Educators

Khalilah Ali (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

190 Seiten

2024
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-6669-1537-2 (ISBN)

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The Conscious Cultural Worker: Counter-Narratives of Black Women Artivists as Radical Educators uses narrative inquiry and Black feminist and womanist pedagogy to look at the teaching identities and lived experiences of Black women artivist educators in the current neoliberal anti-woke moment. Their counter-narratives are presented as vignettes to look at a certain time in the lives of Black women artists who use rap, spoken word, or visual art to turn public places like bars, clubs, galleries, lounges, and alleys into unofficial educational spaces that the author calls "Communities of Reciprocity" (CoR). This book adds to what is known about situated learning, teacher identity, and the co-creation of communities of practice by focusing on the point of view of Black women as conscious culture workers. It does this by bringing attention to the fact that culture work is a kind of conversation between creatives as expert practitioners and audiences as spect-actors, who co-create liberatory educative texts. In this book, Black women "work" the culture by challenging hegemonic discourse and hidden curricula wherever people who want to learn come together.

Khalilah Ali is assistant professor of education at Spelman College.

Contents
Introduction

Part I: We Have to Talk about Liberating Minds as Well as Liberating Society

Chapter 1: “We Reject Pedestals, Queenhood, and Walking Ten Paces Behind:” Identity Politics, Interlocking Oppressions and the Historical and Political Trajectory of Black Women as Conscious Cultural Workers
Chapter 2: We Stay Woke: Artivism, Community Consciousness and Knowledge Building an Epistemic Insurgency
Chapter 3: Honoring “The Community That Names Me:” Crafting a Womanist Pedagogy

Part II: Counter-Stories of Black Women Conscious Cultural Workers as Teachers

Chapter 4: Empress Pam Grier, Spoken Word Poet, Essayist and Short-Story Writer
Chapter 5: Tarita Day, Poet and Slam Champion
Chapter 6: Macy, Poet, Host, Slam Champion and Drag Performer
Chapter 7: Shara Lee Hope, Photographer
Chapter 8: Pookie Jenkins, Collagist and Photographer
Chapter 9: Koda Cole-Li, Hip-Hopper and Poet
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	17.02.2024
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 237 mm
Gewicht	490 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-6669-1537-8 / 1666915378
ISBN-13	978-1-6669-1537-2 / 9781666915372
Zustand	Neuware