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M. Jacqui Alexander

            Jacqui Alexander is a teacher, scholar, activist and writer. She previously taught at Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut, where she held the Fuller-Maathai Chair. Her “work has focused extensively on the relation between nationalism and sexuality and on the ways in which heterosexualization works as a verb to organize nation building projects across both neoimperial and neocolonial formations”. Works have “wrestled with the sacred dimensions of experience and the significance of sacred subjectivity”. “Alexander serves on the editorial boards of Feminist Review, Signs, and Dawn (Canada); she has lectured extensively in the United States, Canada, Europe, Latin American and the Caribbean, and Africa. She is a member of the Carribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action. Alexander is Cosby Endowed Chair in the Humanities at Spelman College and Professor of Women and Gender Studies, University of Toronto.”

Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray!

This book is a guide to progressive politics of gender, race and class in the new millennium. This anthology provides a precise reference work for academics and activists committed to deep and unflinching inquiry into the mechanisms of global justice in the post-cold War world through the collecting of essential writings from the last two decades right up until and through the events of September 2001. This timely volume offers hardline scrutiny of the exploitation of Third World women under NAFTA; the real costs of the Colombian drug war; the inner dynamics of white supremacy; Zionism and anti-Semitism; ecological racism; indigenous sovereignty struggles in the U.S, Canada and Puerto Rico; and plenteous else. Contributors include Toni Morrison, Audre Lorde, Edwidge Danticat, Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa, Angela Y. Davis, Winona LaDuke, and critical, modern voices from a rising activist culture.

Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis

            Provoking, fitting, and comprehensive, this volume offers a critical and grounded undertaking with a transnational feminism through the lens of praxis – the crossroad of theory and practice. In doing so, it scuffles with questions of power and portrayal while staying deeply committed to profound critiques and agendas of transnational and postcolonial feminisms. Long-time activists and acclaimed scholars convey to a wide range of issues and practices, including women’s studies curricula; NGOs; transnational and LGBTQ studies; feminist methodologies; and film. These essays furthermore gestate ways to more adequately theorize feminist collaborative practices while overthrowing such rigid, established dichotomies as theory/practice, academic/activist, individual/collaborative, and the global North/South. A number of transnational projects are highlighted: the Guyanese Red Thread collective; the Ananya Dance Theatre; the Philippine Women Centre of British Colombia; the Filipino-Canadian Youth Alliance; the VIVA! Project; and the Indian organization, Sangtin. Exhaustive in scope and scrupulous in critical analysis, these compelling essays set the twenty-first-century agenda for political undertaking through feminist scholarship.