Guide Black Male Outsider: Teaching as a Pro-Feminist Man

Check copyright status Cite this Title Black male outsider: Also Titled Teaching as a pro-feminist man: Subjects Women's studies -- United States. Feminist theory -- United States. Male feminists -- United States.

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Summary "This book traces the development of the author's consciousness as a black male pro-feminist professor. Lemons explores the meaning of black male feminism by examining his experiences at the New York City college where he taught for more than a decade - a small, private, liberal arts college where the majority of the students were white and female. Through a series of classroom case studies, he presents the transformative power of memoir writing as a strategic tool for enabling students to understand the critical relationship between the personal and the political.

From the insightful inclusion of his own personal narratives about his childhood experience of domestic violence, to stories about being a student and teacher in majority white classrooms for most of his life, Lemons takes the leader on a provocative journey about what it means to be black, male, and pro-feminist. When the Teacher Moves from Silence to Voice: Toward a Profession of Feminism Ch. A Calling of the Heart and Spirit: Racially Integrated Schooling, Curse or Blessing? Narrative Encounters with White Supremacy Pt.

From Theory to Practice: Classroom Case Studies Ch. Made me want to read his whole bibliography! Jan 19, Pablo Miguel rated it really liked it. Came across this important book at the MLA conference. Lemons is a fierce advocate for not merely embracing feminism, but incorporating it, living it. Because he writes from a black feminist perspective, the essays feel utterly relevant, esp to those of us who live what DuBois referred to as "a double consciousness. A book that charts a complicated, but necessary course. Mar 30, Kelly rated it really liked it Shelves: An interesting book looking at Dr.

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Jul 15, Meen marked it as to-read Shelves: Omg, I'm so thrilled to have found this book and can't wait to read it. It is absolutely imperative for the species, for the planet that males realize they can be--and then become--feminists. Kagiso rated it it was amazing Jan 05, Dawn rated it it was amazing Aug 17, May 19, Troy rated it liked it Shelves: I wanted to like this more, but I just couldn't.

Black Male Outsider: Teaching as a Pro-Feminist Man

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To enter classroom settings in colleges and universities with the will to share the desire to encourage excitement, was to transgress.

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Not only did it require movement beyond accepted boundaries, but excitement could not be generated without full recognition of the fact that there could never be an absolute set agenda governing teaching practices. Lemons's own experiences as a professor and writer effectively underscore the connectivity between scholarly life and activism.



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As a self-acclaimed black male "pro-feminist" professor, Lemons pays homage to and is inspired by the work of other pioneering black [End Page ] feminists as well, including Audre Lorde and Alice Walker. As he insists throughout his narrative, the works of such women have rendered and substantiated the subjectivity and perspectives of black women as central to conceptualizing and ideally resisting racism, sexism, and homophobia, for instance. Yet Lemons also credits black males who have demonstrated a commitment to black feminism and find it central to collective liberationist, post-colonial goals for having motivated the development of his consciousness as a pro-feminist.

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Such figures include Frederick Douglass, W. Du Bois, and Calvin Hernton. In addition, Lemons acknowledges the various ways in which his role as a feminist has been impacted by his having served predominantly white college campus communities throughout his career. In the preface of his book he writes:. Over the course of thirteen years of teaching at a small, private college in New York City's historic Greenwich Village, I developed an antiracist pedagogy founded upon black feminist thought.