Description: Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Taking Back Control Part I. Black Women Teachers' Activism: Conversations And Contexts 1. Black Women Teachers Speak Ese Makeda Inez Rita Viv 2. Contextualizing Black Women's Lives and Activism "Adventure," "Opportunity," "A Better Life," and Other Myths: African-Caribbean Canadians in the Political Economy "Scrubbing Hard Someplace" "I'm a Paper Canadian" African Canadian Educational Activism: A History of Cultural Resistance Part II. Classroom Practice 3. "So You Close the Door and You Do What Works": Possibilities and Limitations of Oppositional Standpoints Hands in the Lion's Mouth Voices in the Wilderness: Black Women in White Institutions Child-centeredness Undressed Discussion 4. Literacy, Black Self-representation, and Cultural Practice: Sustaining and Re-creating Intertextual Relationships in the African Diaspora "Intertextual Crossing": Cultural Forms as Pedagogical Forms "Don't Throw Stones when You've Got Glass Windows!": Proverbs and Maxims in the Classroom "It's Jamaican, Miss! They're Jamaican Words!": Caribbean Creoles in the Classroom Discussion 5. The Dilemma of the Empty Shelf and Other Curricular Challenges for Transformative Teachers The Dilemma of the Empty Shelf "Liberating Their Minds" Discussion Epilogue: Holding on to Hope Thoughts on Pedagogies of Black Self-Representation Critically Raising the Next Generation of Black Women: Working Against Invisibility and Silence The Subject of Black Women Notes Bibliography Index

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