Anti-colonial & Anti-racist Feminist Theorizing - Sense Publishers

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Ruptures: Anti-colonial & Anti-racist
Feminist Theorizing
Edited by
Njoki Wane
Jennifer Jagire
Zahra Murad
University of Toronto, Canada
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A C.I.P. record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN: 978-94-6209-444-4 (paperback)
ISBN: 978-94-6209-445-1 (hardback)
ISBN: 978-94-6209-446-8 (e-book)
Published by: Sense Publishers,
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This book is dedicated to Genither Dujon who passed away in 2013 and
did not see this publication.
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgement ix
Foreword xi
Introduction xiii
Njoki Wane & Jennifer Jagire
Part One – Practicing Anti-colonial and Anti-racist Feminism
in Classrooms and Communities
Uncovering the Well: Black Feminism in Canada 3
Njoki Wane
African-Canadian Black Women Leaders: Impacting Change in the Diaspora 23
Genither Dujon
Using Black Canadian Feminist Thought as an Approach to Teaching Science 41
Thelma Akyea
Sistership: Talking Back to Feminism 51
Mary Louise McCarthy
Caribbean Slave Women’s Resistance as a Form of Preservation:
Taking a Closer Look at Pain and Its Relevance to History and the
Preservation of Self 59
Nadia Salter
Ser Madre, to Be Mother in Cuba: The Life of Maria de los Reyes Castillo Bueno 67
Bixidu Lobo-Molnar
Indigenous African Knowledges and African Feminism: Resisting Eurocentric
Ways of Knowing 77
Jennifer Jagire
The Hypersexualization and Undesirability of Black/African Women 91
Nicole Seck
Part Two – Theorizing Anti-racist Feminism, Complicating
Narratives of Race and Gender
African Canadian Women and the Criminal Justice System 107
Njoki Wane
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CONTENTS
December 6th 127
Kenji Haakon Tokawa
Symbolic Proximity: Rihana Face-to-Face 129
Lauriann Wade
Fluidity and Possibility: Imagining Woman of Colour Pedagogies 139
Kirsten Edwards
Taking Seriously the Power of Racialized Self-misrepresentation:
Authenticity, White Supremacy and Consequence 157
Kenji Haakon Tokawa
Appetites: Destabilizing the Notion of Normalcy and Deviance Through
the Black Woman’s Body 167
Sarah Stefana Smith
Tomee 175
Elisha Lim
Part Three – Decolonizing the Heart
The Masks We Wear as We Search for a Home: Experiences of Homelessness
for Those Who Have Non-normative Sexual Orientations Within a
Canadian-South Asian Community 179
Chandni Desai, Kian Iaj, Ami Patel & Nitasha Puri
Complexities in the Margin: Queering Black Feminism in Canada 195
Njoki Wane
Lumbah Rasta (A Long Journey): From Spirit Injury to Spirit Repair 211
Min Kaur
Imperial Imaginations & Decolonizing Dreams: Storying Emancipations 225
Zahra Murad
Great Canadian Love Stories Brought to You by the Canadian National Railway 235
Kenji Haakon Tokawa
Conclusion: Living in the Ruptures 239
Zahra Murad
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We acknowledge all contributors to this manuscript and all those who are seeking to
make a more just society to live in. We also acknowledge the anti-colonialists who
have gone before us.
Last but not least, we thank our Creator who provided us with the strength to see
this project from the beginning to the end. We also thank our Ancestors on whose
shoulders we stand.
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