Learning to (Re)member the Things We've Learned to Forget: Endarkened Feminisms, Spirituality, and the Sacred Nature of Research and Teaching (Black Studies and Critical Thinking)

Drawing on her work and her travels in Ghana, Dillard (teacher education, U. of Georgia) explores the ways that African cultural traditions and spiritualities have shaped black feminist consciousness and notions of black womanhood as a cross-cultural diversity of nationalities, socioeconomic classes, sexual identities, and spiritual beliefs. She advocates greater inclusion of spirituality and sacred understanding in feminist subjectivity. Some specific areas she addresses include cultural memories of African beauty, and the importance of spirituality and the sacred for transnational feminist research. B&w photos by the author show contemporary African communities. There is no subject index Annotation Ac2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Cynthia B. Dillard (Nana Mansa II of Mpeasem, Ghana, West Africa) is the Mary Frances Early Endowed Professor of Teacher Education at the University of Georgia. Her first book On Spiritual Strivings: Transforming an African American Woman’s Academic Life (2006) was selected for the 2008 Critics’ Choice Book Award by the American Educational Studies Association (AESA).