{"product_id":"the-black-feminist-coup-9781636677682","title":"The Black Feminist Coup","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Black Feminist Coup: Black Women's Lived Experiences in White Supremacist Feminist Academic Spaces is a collective narrative of how three Black women faculty at a large Midwestern\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ePWI, and two of their former students and allies build alliances to collaboratively disrupt white\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003esupremacist feminist spaces. Themes of what it means to be a fugitive, to be free, and to be a\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003efeminist inform how we envision the future of Black women's labor in the academy. More specifically,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethis project explores intersecting narratives of how three Black women faculty fled a\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eracist and microaggressive Gender and Women's Studies (GWS) department, following the start\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eof the COVID 19 pandemic and the 2020 summer of racial unrest, and moved to an institute that\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ehouses African American and African studies. Their stories of misogynoir reflect a brutal irony\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethat GWS departments expect Black women to further all women's interests while impeding Black\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ewomen's ability to thrive. This work demands that institutions bear responsibility in providing\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eBlack women with an environment to thrive, and dream of new possibilities and opportunities\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eto develop curricula and initiatives that center Black lives with priority. Bridging at the intersections\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eof feminism, Black Studies, and higher education, this project surveys concepts of survival,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003etrauma, pain, and healing to offer future possibilities for dismantling and challenging systems of\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ewhite supremacy in the academy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Black Feminist Coup is a groundbreaking text. Through courageous counter-stories and brilliant theoretical engagements, the authors spotlight the various intellectual traditions, institutional arrangements, power dynamics, and sociocultural practices that have made academia a persistent site of oppression and violence for Black women. Although such an offering would be more than enough for a single text, the book also provides a clear and accessible pathway toward dismantling White supremacy, nurturing radical resistance, and building safe and productive intellectual spaces for Black women within academia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarc Lamont Hill, Presidential Professor of Urban Education and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnthropology at CUNY Graduate Center\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE BLACK FEMINIST COUP is a compelling, courageous co-authored monograph that explores the lived experiences of a group of mostly Black women in white supremacist feminist spaces at one university. Grounded in Black feminist history and theory, this pioneering text makes visible  in moving and painful ways-- the impact of racism, sexism, and misogynoir on Black feminists in the academy during various junctures of their journeys, including, perhaps surprisingly, women's and gender studies spaces. Especially instructive is the book's exploration of what cross-racial solidarities might mean in feminist academic spaces and what white women in particular might learn from these analyses and blueprints for transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeverly Guy-Sheftall, The Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Comparative Women's Studies at\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpelman College and co-edited WORDS OF FIRE (New Press, 1995)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041826242903,"sku":"9781636677682","price":69.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781636677682.jpg?v=1750951839","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-black-feminist-coup-9781636677682","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}