Teaching Transformation Transcultural Classroom Dialogues

by Keating, AnaLouise

• ISBN13: 9780230104907
• ISBN10: 0230104908
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-08-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Drawing on indigenous belief systems and recent work in critical "race" studies and multicultural-feminist theory, Keating provides detailed step-by-step suggestions, based on her own teaching experiences, designed to anticipate students' resistance to social-justice issues and encourage them to change. She offers a holistic approach to theory and practice.

Author Biography

AnaLouise Keating is Professor of Women’s Studies at Texas Woman’s University. She has taught composition, U.S. American literature, English, and women’s studies. She is the author or editor of eight books, including Women Reading, Women Writing: Self-Invention in Paula Gunn Allen, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Audre Lorde; EntreMundos/AmongWorlds: New Perspectives on Gloria Anzaldúa; this bridge we call home: radical visions for transformation (co-edited with Anzaldúa); The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader, and Anzaldúa’s Interviews/Entrevistas. She has published articles on Chicana/Latina authors, African-American literature, queer studies, multiculturalism, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century U.S. writers, feminist theory, and pedagogy. 

Table of Contents

Introduction: Transformational Multiculturalism--Definitions, Alterations, Interventions * “We Are Related to All That Lives:" "New" Stories for Social Change * Forging Commonalities: Relational Patterns of Reading and Teaching * Giving Voice to "Whiteness"? * (De)Constructing "Race" * Reading "Whiteness", Unreading "Race:" (De)Racialized Teaching Tactics *  "How Can I Teach Them?" * Teaching the Other? * Conclusion: Towards an Ethics of Accountability