Spaces for Resistance - by Geniece Crawford Mondé & Ebonie Cunningham Stringer (Hardcover)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

Using autoethnography, this book answers the Black feminist call to talk back to systems of oppression and highlight agency and resistance of Black women.

Editors Geniece Crawford Mondé and Ebonie Cunningham Stringer explore the varied ways in which Black feminism is understood, applied, and expressed across disciplinary backgrounds. Drawing from the perspectives of both academics and scholar-practitioners, they examine how these paradigms bear relevance on timely issues, like socially-engaged scholarship, work-life balance, and navigating challenging social, academic, and political contexts. This book is divided into five thematic sections. Part one examines Black feminism as a tool for liberatory pedagogical praxis. Part two creates a space for Black women whose work and experiences both inform and extend the Black feminist perspective beyond the United States. Part three provides insight into the factors that shape Black women's most important relationships and the conflicting priorities that compete for their attention. Part four explores how Black women are able to incorporate their ideals into their professional workplace. Part five highlights the ways in which Black feminism emerges from and is sustained within communities. By bringing these perspectives together, Mondé, Stringer, and the contributors critically examine the complex ways in which Black feminist scholarship has continued to shape our understanding of the world today.

Review Quotes

"A masterpiece . . . Mondé and Stringer collaborated to create a robust volume of autoethnographic scholarship that provides a better understanding of how Black feminism, as a conceptual framework and tool of liberation, is accessible to individuals throughout the academy and beyond. The graceful insights of the contributors provide spaces that focus on intentional value and visibility of Black women." --Stacye Blount, Associate Professor of Sociology, Fayetteville State University, USA

"In Spaces for Resistance, Mondé and Stringer follow the paths of Ida B. Wells, Patricia Hill Collins, and Kimberle Crenshaw, and have championed a volume about Black feminism as a way of life. Black women academics, practitioners, community advocates, and graduate students share scholarship and stories in their own voices to present Black feminism as a robust lens that can illumine individual and group experiences inside and outside academia. Contexts vary-from educational, national, and international terrain to motherhood and marriage-as writers detail how professional and personal relationships are informed by this schema. This book shows that resistance can manifest in many ways as Black women have and continue to develop authentic forms of being and doing. Spaces for Resistance is a must read for anyone interested in examining contemporary practices of creating and cultivating resistance and transformation." --Sandra L. Barnes, C.V. Starr Professor of Sociology, Brown University, USA

About the Author

Geniece Crawford Mondé is the Herman N. Hipp Associate Professor of Sociology at Furman University, USA.

Ebonie Cunningham Stringer is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at The Pennsylvania State University-Berks, USA.