Assata Zerai

Black Feminist Interventions to Decolonize the Westernized University (eBook, ePUB)

Epistemology, Research Methodology, and Pedagogy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Decoloniality is a perspective that challenges the colonial foundation and neoliberal operations of the westernized university today. In Black Feminist Interventions to Decolonize the Westernized University: Epistemology, Research Methodology, and Pedagogy Assata Zerai highlights feminist decoloniality as a tool to promote institutional transformation, indirectly through changes in research and teaching in the social sciences, directly by centering social justice within higher education. Reflecting on three decades of scholarship, Zerai adapts principles of decolonial theory to scholarship, pedagogy, and praxis transnationally, focusing on higher education in the USA and South Africa. She intentionally centers students who have been racially and culturally excluded in these contexts and provides evidence of university students experiencing intersectional microaggressions, including gendered, ableist, and queerphobic anti-Blackness. Zerai argues that faculty must appreciate such realities in order to affirm students and create learning environments in which all may thrive. Further, this book argues that ethical commitments to minoritized students and their communities must be reflected in humanizing research practices. Finally, Zerai reviews ways in which scholars have begun to move their disciplines from a focus on traditional canons of the modernist era to embrace decolonial sensibilities in their academic work. This book highlights these new approaches within the social sciences, to promote justice, equity, accessibility, diversity, and inclusion (JEADI) within higher education.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666944525
• Artikelnr.: 74820798

Autorenporträt

Assata Zerai is professor of sociology at The University of New Mexico, visiting professor at The University of the Witwatersrand, and professor emerita at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Acronyms
Introduction
Chapter 1: Locating this Feminist Decolonial Project and Acting on Calls to
Decolonize the Westernized University
Chapter 2: A Special Period: Persisting in Higher Education during
Retrenchment in the United States
Chapter 3: Intersectional Microaggressions in Transnational Contexts: Black
Students Experiencing Gendered, Ableist, and Queer-phobic Anti-Blackness in
the U.S. and South Africa
Chapter 4: Everyday Practices of Decolonizing Research in the Social
Sciences: Epistemology, Methodology, Citational Justice, and Praxis
Chapter 5: Beyond Acknowledgement: Does Moving from Recognizing Legacies of
Harm in Higher Education Institutions to Dismantling Racism Give Us Actual
Hope for Decolonizing the Westernized University?
Chapter 6: Truth and Reconciliation and Other Investigative Commissions:
Addressing Racism in South African Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)
Conclusion: Black Feminist Inflections in Justice, Equity, Accessibility,
Diversity, and Inclusion (JEADI): Decolonizing the Westernized University
Appendix 1: Examples of Good Faith Efforts Quoted from the Office of
Federal Contract Compliance Programs
Appendix 2: Examples of Implicit Associations Tests, Quoted from Project
Implicit
Bibliography
About the Author