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Ruptures: Anti-colonial & Anti-racist Feminist Theorizing Ruptures: Anti-colonial & Anti-racist Feminist Theorizing Edited by Njoki Wane Jennifer Jagire Zahra Murad University of Toronto, Canada A C.I.P. record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN: 978-94-6209-444-4 (paperback) ISBN: 978-94-6209-445-1 (hardback) ISBN: 978-94-6209-446-8 (e-book) Published by: Sense Publishers, P.O. Box 21858, 3001 AW Rotterdam, The Netherlands https://www.sensepublishers.com/ Printed on acid-free paper All Rights Reserved © 2013 Sense Publishers No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. This book is dedicated to Genither Dujon who passed away in 2013 and did not see this publication. CONTENTS Acknowledgement ix Foreword xi Introduction xiii Njoki Wane & Jennifer Jagire Part One – Practicing Anti-colonial and Anti-racist Feminism in Classrooms and Communities Uncovering the Well: Black Feminism in Canada 3 Njoki Wane African-Canadian Black Women Leaders: Impacting Change in the Diaspora 23 Genither Dujon Using Black Canadian Feminist Thought as an Approach to Teaching Science 41 Thelma Akyea Sistership: Talking Back to Feminism 51 Mary Louise McCarthy Caribbean Slave Women’s Resistance as a Form of Preservation: Taking a Closer Look at Pain and Its Relevance to History and the Preservation of Self 59 Nadia Salter Ser Madre, to Be Mother in Cuba: The Life of Maria de los Reyes Castillo Bueno 67 Bixidu Lobo-Molnar Indigenous African Knowledges and African Feminism: Resisting Eurocentric Ways of Knowing 77 Jennifer Jagire The Hypersexualization and Undesirability of Black/African Women 91 Nicole Seck Part Two – Theorizing Anti-racist Feminism, Complicating Narratives of Race and Gender African Canadian Women and the Criminal Justice System 107 Njoki Wane vii CONTENTS December 6th 127 Kenji Haakon Tokawa Symbolic Proximity: Rihana Face-to-Face 129 Lauriann Wade Fluidity and Possibility: Imagining Woman of Colour Pedagogies 139 Kirsten Edwards Taking Seriously the Power of Racialized Self-misrepresentation: Authenticity, White Supremacy and Consequence 157 Kenji Haakon Tokawa Appetites: Destabilizing the Notion of Normalcy and Deviance Through the Black Woman’s Body 167 Sarah Stefana Smith Tomee 175 Elisha Lim Part Three – Decolonizing the Heart The Masks We Wear as We Search for a Home: Experiences of Homelessness for Those Who Have Non-normative Sexual Orientations Within a Canadian-South Asian Community 179 Chandni Desai, Kian Iaj, Ami Patel & Nitasha Puri Complexities in the Margin: Queering Black Feminism in Canada 195 Njoki Wane Lumbah Rasta (A Long Journey): From Spirit Injury to Spirit Repair 211 Min Kaur Imperial Imaginations & Decolonizing Dreams: Storying Emancipations 225 Zahra Murad Great Canadian Love Stories Brought to You by the Canadian National Railway 235 Kenji Haakon Tokawa Conclusion: Living in the Ruptures 239 Zahra Murad viii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We acknowledge all contributors to this manuscript and all those who are seeking to make a more just society to live in. We also acknowledge the anti-colonialists who have gone before us. Last but not least, we thank our Creator who provided us with the strength to see this project from the beginning to the end. We also thank our Ancestors on whose shoulders we stand. ix
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