Transforming the Curriculum

Johnnella E. Butler is Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. John C. Walter is Professor in the Department of American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. Dr. Walter is the author of The Harlem Fox: J. Raymond Jones and Tammany, 1920-1970, published by SUNY Press.

"This book represents a new vision of curricular change in higher education and presents the theoretical and practical bases for accomplishing it. It bridges the gap between women's studies and ethnic studies, two interdisciplinary bodies of knowledge that have provided significant and important pedagogical innovations in the academy; the dialogue between these two fields has the potential to guide thinking about curricular change for faculty in all fields of study." —Betty Schmitz, University of Maryland, College Park"Universities are being pressured by ethnic groups and women to revise their curricula to reflect ethnic and gender content. This book provides many insights and resources that can be used to help universities to revise their curricula to more accurately depict the experiences of ethnic groups and women. Many of the chapters in the book provide fresh perspectives, new scholarship, and examples of teaching strategies and materials that are effective in integrating content about women and ethnic groups in the university curriculum." —James A. Banks, University of Washington, Seattle

• Acknowledgments ForewordLaurel Wilkening IntroductionJohnnella E. Butler Part I: Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies: Interrelationships 1. The Difficult Dialogue of Curriculum Transformation: Ethnic Studies and Women's StudiesJohnnella E. Butler 2. Funding Women's StudiesCaryn McTighe Musil and Ruby Sales 3. Private Foundation Grants to American Ethnic Studies Departments and Programs, 1972–1988: Patterns and ProspectsKatharine Bolland and John C. Walter 4. Different Voices: A Model Institute for Integrating Women of Color Into Undergraduate American Literature and History CoursesJohnnella E. Butler and Betty Schmitz Part II: The Cutting Edge of the Liberal Arts: Some Essentials in Pedagogy and Theory Building 5. Transforming the Curriculum: Teaching About Women of ColorJohnnella E. Butler 6. Teaching "White Women, Racism and Anti-Racism" in a Women's Studies ProgramRuth Frankenberg 7. Gender and the Transformation of a Survey Course in Afro-American HistoryJohn C. Walter 8. Black Studies in Liberal Arts EducationJohnnetta B. Cole 9. Towards an Epistemology of Ethnic Studies: African American Studies and Chicano Studies ContributionsR. A. Olguin 10. Is Jewish Studies Ethnic Studies?Howard Adelman 11. The Politics of Jewish Invisibility in Women's StudiesEvelyn Torton Beck Part III: The Cutting Edge of the Liberal Arts: Some Implications for Scholarship 12. Gender in the Context of Race and ClassElizabeth V. Spelman 13. Asian American Literary Traditions: Real vs. FakeFrank Chin, Jeffery Chan, Lawson Inada, and Shawn Wong 14. Time and Time Again: Notes Toward an Understanding of Radical Elements in American Indian FictionKathryn Shanley 15. The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window: Toward a Transformative AestheticJohnnella E. Butler 16. Armenian American Women: The First Word...Arlene Avakian Part IV: Ethnic Studies, Women's Studies, and the Liberal Arts Curriculum: Retrospect and Prospect 17. A Black Feminist Perspective on the AcademyBeverly Guy-Sheftall 18. A Critical Assessment of Bloom: The Closing of the American Mind?Jonathan Majek 19. Praxis and the Prospect of Curriculum TransformationJohnnella E. Butler and John C. Walter Contributors Index