The Black Feminist Coup
Black Women’s Lived Experiences in White Supremacist Feminist Academic Spaces
Summary
The Black Feminist Coup is a groundbreaking text. Through courageous counter-stories and brilliant theoretical engagements, the authors spotlight the various intellectual traditions, institutional arrangements, power dynamics, and sociocultural practices that have made academia a persistent site of oppression and violence for Black women. Although such an offering would be more than enough for a single text, the book also provides a clear and accessible pathway toward dismantling White supremacy, nurturing radical resistance, and building safe and productive intellectual spaces for Black women within academia.
—Marc Lamont Hill, Presidential Professor of Urban Education and
Anthropology at CUNY Graduate Center
THE BLACK FEMINIST COUP is a compelling, courageous co-authored monograph that explores the lived experiences of a group of mostly Black women in white supremacist feminist spaces at one university. Grounded in Black feminist history and theory, this pioneering text makes visible – in moving and painful ways-- the impact of racism, sexism, and misogynoir on Black feminists in the academy during various junctures of their journeys, including, perhaps surprisingly, women’s and gender studies spaces. Especially instructive is the book’s exploration of what cross-racial solidarities might mean in feminist academic spaces and what white women in particular might learn from these analyses and blueprints for transformation.
—Beverly Guy-Sheftall, The Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Comparative Women’s Studies at
Spelman College and co-edited WORDS OF FIRE (New Press, 1995)
Excerpt
Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Introduction Comparing Notes: Black Women in Isolation
- Chapter 2 Black Feminist Genealogies and the Art of Storytelling
- Chapter 3 Mariam’s Story Not in My Name: Harm, Accountability, and Transformative Justice in Gender and Women’s Studies
- Chapter 4 Jennifer’s Story White Feminist Terrorism: But I Come with Receipts
- Chapter 5 Staci’s Story Racism, Gender and Administration: The Perils of Healing in Higher Education’s Public Eye
- Chapter 6 Keiondra and Olivia’s Perspectives: Outsiders Looking In
- Chapter 7 Conclusion: Sisterhood, Action Steps and Accountability
- Epilogue Olivia’s “Academic Karens” Reading List
- References
- Index
- Author Biographies
- Series Index
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Richardson, Jennifer L.
Title: The Black feminist coup: Black women’s lived experiences in White
supremacist feminist academic spaces / Jennifer L. Richardson,
Mariam Konaté, Staci M. Perryman-Clark, Olivia Marie McLaughlin,
Keiondra Grace.
Description: New York: Peter Lang, 2024. | Series: Equity in higher
education theory, policy, and praxis, 2330-4502; Vol. 19 | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2023051283 (print) | LCCN 2023051284 (ebook) | ISBN
9781636677064 (paperback) | ISBN 9781636677682 (hardback) | ISBN
9781636677699 (pdf) | ISBN 9781636677705 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: African American women college teachers. | African American
women in higher education. | African American feminists. | Feminism and
education— United States. | Women’s studies— United States. | African
American women--Study and teaching (Higher) | Feminism— Study and
teaching (Higher)— United States.
Classification: LCC LB2332.32. B529 2024 (print) | LCC LB2332.32 (ebook)
DDC 378.1/208996073—dc23/eng/20231204
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023051283
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023051284
DOI 10.3726/b21464
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National Bibliography; detailed bibliographic data is available
on the Internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de.
Cover design by Jonnea J. Herman
ISSN 2330-4502 (print)
ISSN 2330-4510 (online)
ISBN 9781636677682 (hardback)
ISBN 9781636677064 (paperback)
ISBN 9781636677699 (ebook pdf)
ISBN 9781636677705 (epub)
DOI 10.3726/b21464
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About the author
THE BLACK FEMINIST COUP is a compelling, courageous co-authored monograph that explores the lived experiences of a group of mostly Black women in white supremacist feminist spaces at one university. Grounded in Black feminist history and theory, this pioneering text makes visible -- in moving and painful ways -- the impact of racism, sexism, and misogynoir on Black feminists in the academy during various junctures of their journeys, including, perhaps surprisingly, women’s and gender studies spaces. Especially instructive is the book’s exploration of what cross-racial solidarities might mean in feminist academic spaces and what white women in particular might learn from these analyses and blueprints for transformation.
—Beverly Guy-Sheftall, The Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Comparative Women’s Studies at Spelman College and co-edited WORDS OF FIRE (New Press, 1995)
About the book
The Black Feminist Coup: Black Women’s Lived Experiences in White Supremacist Feminist Academic Spaces is a collective narrative of how three Black women faculty at a large Midwestern PWI, and two of their former students and allies build alliances to collaboratively disrupt white supremacist feminist spaces. Themes of what it means to be a fugitive, to be free, and to be a feminist inform how we envision the future of Black women’s labor in the academy. More specifically, this project explores intersecting narratives of how three Black women faculty fled a racist and microaggressive Gender and Women’s Studies (GWS) department, following the start of the COVID 19 pandemic and the 2020 summer of racial unrest, and moved to an institute that houses African American and African studies. Their stories of misogynoir reflect a brutal irony that GWS departments expect Black women to further all women’s interests while impeding Black women’s ability to thrive. This work demands that institutions bear responsibility in providing Black women with an environment to thrive, and dream of new possibilities and opportunities to develop curricula and initiatives that center Black lives with priority. Bridging at the intersections of feminism, Black Studies, and higher education, this project surveys concepts of survival, trauma, pain, and healing to offer future possibilities for dismantling and challenging systems of white supremacy in the academy.
The Black Feminist Coup is a groundbreaking text. Through courageous counter-stories and brilliant theoretical engagements, the authors spotlight the various intellectual traditions, institutional arrangements, power dynamics, and sociocultural practices that have made academia a persistent site of oppression and violence for Black women. Although such an offering would be more than enough for a single text, the book also provides a clear and accessible pathway toward dismantling White supremacy, nurturing radical resistance, and building safe and productive intellectual spaces for Black women within academia.
—Marc Lamont Hill, Presidential Professor of Urban Education and Anthropology at CUNY Graduate Center
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Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction Comparing Notes: Black Women in Isolation
Chapter 2 Black Feminist Genealogies and the Art of Storytelling
Chapter 4 Jennifer’s Story White Feminist Terrorism: But I Come with Receipts
Chapter 6 Keiondra and Olivia’s Perspectives: Outsiders Looking In
Chapter 7 Conclusion: Sisterhood, Action Steps and Accountability
Details
- Pages
- X, 168
- Publication Year
- 2024
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781636677699
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9781636677705
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9781636677064
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9781636677682
- DOI
- 10.3726/b21464
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2024 (February)
- Keywords
- Feminism Black feminism storytelling white supremacy gender and women’s studies higher education freedom accountability The Black Feminist Coup Black Women’s Lived Experiences in White Supremacist Feminist Academic Spaces Jennifer L. Richardson Mariam Konaté Staci M. Perryman-Clark Olivia Marie McLaughlin Keiondra Grace
- Published
- New York, Berlin, Bruxelles, Chennai, Lausanne, Oxford, 2024. X, 178 pp.
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