Global Black Feminisms

Andrea N. Baldwin is an Associate professor in the Divisions of Gender and Ethnic Studies in the School for Cultural and Social Transformation at the University of Utah.Tonya Haynes is a lecturer and Coordinator of Graduate Programmes at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies: Nita Barrow Unit (IGDS:NBU).

"The illuminating essays in Global Black Feminisms represent a compelling response from a new generation of Caribbean feminist critics to transnational Black feminist thought. This collection represents one of the finest 21 st century contributions to Caribbean feminist thought and Caribbean social and political thought, and will be widely celebrated and appreciated."-Aaron Kamugisha, Professor of Africana Studies, Smith College."Knowledge production – as a collaborative, community-based practice and as a lived experience between students and teachers, mentees, and mentors – is at the heart of this book. A timely centering of global Black–Caribbean feminisms that goes beyond a simple riposte to western–centric feminisms, this book provides a profound exploration of the complexities and liberatory praxes that are necessary for the full recognition of subjectivities that have been historically oppressed, made invisible, and dehumanized. As you read this book, you realize that teaching and scholarship are not tools to be used for the neoliberal promotion of the self within the academic industry. Rather, they are essential for our freedom."-Nathalie Etoke, Associate Professor of Francophone and Africana Studies at the Graduate Center, CUNY.

• 0. Home-Grown and Grounded: Black Caribbean Feminist Pedagogies in Global Conversation SECTION I: Black Feminisms: Sites of Black Feminist Existence 1. Women’s Studies After Wynter: Teaching Gender and Development Studies in a Gender-Conscious Caribbean 2. The Geography of Healing at the End of the World: Black Scholar Practitioners Who Evoke Toni Morrison’s The Clearing 3. Public Scholarship as B(l)ack Talk: African Feminist Collaborations in the Academy and Online SECTION II: Black Women’s Lived Experiences in Our Contemporary Societies 4. Mothering in Neo-liberal Contexts: Caribbean Women’s Experiences 5. Psychosocial Uncertainty: Making Sense of Institutional Suffering in Trinidad and Tobago 6. Black Favela Feminism: The Struggle for Survival as a Transformative Praxis SECTION III: Black Feminist Activism: A Worldmaking Praxis of Care 7. Subversive Knowledges and Praxes of Black Immigrants in the United States: Reflections from a Scholar-Advocate 8. The Women. They Were Plotting Too: Declaring our Independence in the Spirit of Sankofa 9. Critical Transnational Queer Praxis: Perspectives on (Re)Production, Performance, and Punishment in the Academy SECTION IV: Black Feminisms and Healing Futures 10. ‘Tacit Sexualities’ Transforming the Narrative: Afro-Caribbean Women and the Politics of the Body 11. University Plantation Il/logics: Black Women’s Fugitivity and Futurity in the Wake of COVID-19 and the Global Anti-racist Uprisings of 2020/21 Afterword