Black Feminist Interventions to Decolonize the Westernized University - Epistemology, Research Methodology, and Pedagogy

Assata Zerai reflects on three decades of scholarship and examines ways in which scholars and professors have begun to move their disciplines from a focus on traditional canons of the modernist era to embrace decolonial sensibilities in research, teaching, and institutional transformation, bringing about change within higher education.

List of contents

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

About the author

Assata Zerai

Product details

• Authors: Assata Zerai, Assata Zerai, Zerai Assata
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.02.2025
• EAN: 9781666944518
• ISBN: 978-1-66694-451-8
• No. of pages: 186
• Series: The Africana Experience and Critical Leadership Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; EDUCATION / Administration / General, Africa, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, Politics & government, Organization & management of education, Educational administration and organization, Politics and government, Teaching of a specific subject, Feminism and feminist theory, Educational: Social sciences, Educational: Social sciences, social studies, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Social Science