Critical race studies across disciplines : resisting racism through scholactivism / edited by Jonathan Chism, Stacie Craft DeFreitas, Vida Robertson, and David Ryden.

Title :

Critical race studies across disciplines : resisting racism through scholactivism

Format:

Books

Summary:

"Critical Race Studies Across Disciplines exhibits essays by Black studies scholars from various disciplines outside of legal studies which directly and indirectly incorporate critical race theory into their analysis of the Black experience. As scholar-activists or scholactivists, these academics are firmly committed to African American liberation."--

Language:

English

ISBN - ISSN:

1793635889

9781793635884

1793635900

9781793635907

Physical Description:

xvi, 301 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Contents:

Introduction / Jonathan Chism -- PART I: African American history -- Introduction : intersections between critical race studies and history / David Ryden -- "'I wuz like a petty dog": White animalization of enslaved Blacks / Rachael Pasierowska -- Slave to soldier : United States Colored troops in the West during the Civil War / Scott L. Stabler and Martin Hershock -- Fighting on two fronts : Black educational self determination and community preservation in Houston, Texas / Jesús Jesse Esparza -- Part II: African Americans and education -- Introduction : intersections between education and critical race studies / Jonathan Chism -- "Getcha lesson" : gleaning wisdom from African American K-12 educators who endured the desegregation of public schools / Darius M. Benton -- "Good" pedagogy : arguments for critical pedagogy in higher education / Felicia L. Harris and Nina Barbieri -- Surviving the wild west : a Critical Race feminist analysis of African American women students' experiences with gendered racism at the University of Colorado-Boulder / LeAnna T. Luney -- PART III: African American literary and cultural studies -- Introduction : intersections between African American literature, cultural studies, and Critical Race studies / Vida Robertson -- Rememory and Toni Morrison's Beloved : a counter-narrative to forgetting America's past / Ordner W. Taylor, III -- The unscripted script of Black YouTube (BYT) : the working identities of African American family vloggers / Jenean A. McGee -- HIV/AIDS, sexualized anti-Blackness, and bodily geographies of struggle / Khyree Davis -- PART IV: African American psychology and African American religion -- Introduction : intersections between African American psychology, African American religion, and Critical Race studies / Stacie Craft DeFreitas and Jonathan Chism -- The state of Black mental health : understanding disparities through the lens of Critical Race psychology / Erlanger A. Turner and Tinicia C. Turner -- The true measure of American greatness : power, relationality, and community in the thinking of Bernard Loomer, Howard Thurman, and Martin Luther King Jr. / Darrius D. Hills.

Subject:

Race relations -- Research.

Racism -- Study and teaching.

Ethnicity -- Study and teaching.

Race discrimination -- United States.

African Americans -- United States.

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Summary

This book argues that critical race theory (CRT)--which originated within Legal Studies during the 1970s--has permeated multiple academic disciplines and informs the ethical commitments of scholars in diverse fields of study. Critical Race Studies Across Disciplines includes essays by scholars of African American studies from various disciplines, who directly and indirectly incorporate CRT through signaling a commitment to scholar-activism or scholactivism. Scholactivists hope to understand the roots of anti-Black racism and to actively oppose all forms of oppression. Drawing on CRT, the volume counters the colorblind rhetoric of those who dismiss the notion of systemic racism, discount racial inequities, and disregard racial justice advocates as malcontents fanning the flames of racial dissension. The contributors of this collection challenge racism centering the stories, perspectives, and counter-narratives of African American soldiers, teachers, students, writers, psychologists, and theologians who continually defy and resist oppression in myriad ways.

Author Notes

Jonathan Chism is assistant professor of history and a fellow of the Center for Critical Race Studies at the University of Houston-Downtown.

Stacie Craft DeFreitas is a licensed psychologist, an associate professor of psychology, the Interim Associate Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and a fellow of the Center for Critical Race Studies at the University of Houston-Downtown.

Vida Robertson is associate professor of English and humanities and serves as the Director of the Center for Critical Race Studies at the University of Houston-Downtown.

David Ryden is professor of history, Interim Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and a fellow of the Center for Critical Race Studies at the University of Houston-Downtown.