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Foreword AnaLouise Keating
Introduction: “Womanist Is to Feminist as Purple Is to Lavender”: Writing in Solidarity across Shade
Part I. Teaching in the “Universal[ist]” Spirit of Womanism
1. Spirituality in the Classroom: Some Womanist Reflections / Layli Maparyan
2. Coming into Being: Metta to Womanist Teachers / Kendra N. Bryant
3. Professing the Liberatory Power of Womanism / Gary L. Lemons
4. A Doctored Voice: Resistance, Reading, and Righting as Womanist Pedagogy / Ylce Irizarry
Part II. Womanist Alliances for Human Rights and Social Justice
5. Breaking Silence / M. Jacqui Alexander and Beverly Guy-Sheftall
6. From Exile to Healing: I “Too” Am a Womanist / Susie L.Hoeller
7. Nepantlera as Midwife of Empathy / Paul T. Corrigan
8. A Deeper Shade of Consciousness: My Voice Is My Resistance / Atika Chaudhary
Part III. Speaking and Acting Out in Womanist Solidarity
9. Transgenero Performance: Gender and Transformation in Mujeres en Ritual / Dora Arreola
10. Soy Mujer Cuando . . . A Collective Poem / Andrea Assaf
11. Now Is Not the Time for Silence: Writing and Directing What the Heart Remembers / Fanni V. Green
12. “I Come from a Dream Deferred” / Erica C. Sutherlin
13. On Becoming a Feminist / Rudolph P. Byrd
14. Compelled by the Spirit: My Journey to Become a Womanist Man / M. Thandabantu Iverson
Contributors
Index