Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color

Abstract

"Weaving personal narrative with political analysis, Community as Rebellion offers a meditation on creating liberatory spaces for students and faculty of color within academia. Much like other women scholars of color, Lorgia García Peña has struggled against the colonizing, racializing, classist, and unequal structures that perpetuate systemic violence within universities. Through personal experiences and analytical reflections, the author invites readers--in particular Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian women--to engage in liberatory practices of boycott, abolition, and radical community-building to combat the academic world's tokenizing and exploitative structures"--Provided by publisher. "Weaving personal narrative with political analysis, 'Community as Rebellion' offers a meditation on creating liberatory spaces for students and faculty of color within academia. Much like other women scholars of color, Lorgia García Peña has struggled against the colonizing, racializing, classist, and unequal structures that perpetuate systemic violence within universities. The author invites readers to engage in acts of boycott, protest, and radical community-building to combat the academic world's tokenizing and exploitative structures"--Back cover. Course requirements -- Preface -- Course objective : on being "the one" -- Reading list : complicity with whiteness will not save you -- Midterm : teaching as accompaniment -- Final exam : ethnic studies as anticolonial method.