ABSTRACT
Black Feminist Sociology offers new writings by established and emerging scholars working in a Black feminist tradition. The book centers Black feminist sociology (BFS) within the sociology canon and widens is to feature Black feminist sociologists both outside the US and the academy. Inspired by a BFS lens, the essays are critical, personal, political and oriented toward social justice. Key themes include the origins of BFS, expositions of BFS orientations to research that extend disciplinary norms, and contradictions of the pleasures and costs of such an approach both academically and personally. Authors explore their own sociological legacy of intellectual development to raise critical questions of intellectual thought and self-reflexivity. The book highlights the dynamism of BFS so future generations of scholars can expand upon and beyond the book’s key themes.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |15 pages
Introduction
part 1|53 pages
Revisiting Legacies of Black Feminist Sociology and How They Ground Us
chapter Chapter 2|13 pages
The Black Feminist Roots of Scholar-Activism
chapter Chapter 4|13 pages
The Language Through Which Black Feminist Theory Speaks
part 2|65 pages
Black Feminist Sociological Communities and How They Speak to Us
chapter Chapter 5|13 pages
Reflections on Re-Creating Biological Race and the Entrapment of Black People
chapter Chapter 9|15 pages
Learning, Teaching, Re-Membering and Enacting Black Feminist Sociology at a Black Women's College
part 3|57 pages
Black Feminist Sociology Epistemologies and What They Reveal to Us
chapter Chapter 11|12 pages
Global Health and BFS
chapter Chapter 12|10 pages
Family Background and the Meanings of Economic Autonomy for Black Lesbian Women 1
chapter Chapter 14|12 pages
Black Feminist Piety
part 4|56 pages
Black Feminist Sociological Methodologies and What They Teach Us
chapter Chapter 16|10 pages
Black Feminist Epistemological Methodology
part 5|59 pages
Imagining Black Feminist Sociological Futures and What They Create for Us