UnCommon Bonds (eBook, PDF)

Women Reflect on Race and Friendship

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Produktbeschreibung

UnCommon Bonds is a collection of essays written by women representing multiple identities; all uniquely addressing the impactful experiences of race, ethnicity, and friendship in the context of the United States. The essays unapologetically explore the challenges of developing and maintaining cross-racial friendships between women. A primary goal of this book is to resist simplifying cross-racial friendships. Instinctively, the editors believe that there is a unique joy and pain in these relationships that is rarely easy to summarize. The essays reflect narratives that challenge assumptions, disclose deep interpersonal struggles, and celebrate the complex sisterhood between women across racial lines.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781433148781
• Artikelnr.: 53493241

Autorenporträt

Kersha Smith, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Psychology at the City University of New York, Queensborough Community College. Kersha has been published in Pedagogy, Culture & Society, The Journal of Social Issues, and Transformative Dialogues, among other journals. She is a recipient of the Spencer Foundation¿s Discipline Based Studies in Education Fellowship, Calvin W. Ruck Award, and The Larry Murphy Award by the Adult Higher Education Alliance. Marcella Runell Hall, Ed.D., is Vice President for Student Life and Dean of Students at Mount Holyoke College. Marcella has a doctorate in social justice education from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a masters of arts in higher education administration from New York University, and a bachelor¿s degree in social work from Ramapo College of New Jersey. Marcella has previously edited four books and contributed chapters to several book projects, as well as published her work in VIBE, Equity & Excellence in Education, and the New York Times Learning Network. Marcella has received numerous awards from NASPA (Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education) and was the recipient of the K. Patricia Cross Future Scholar¿s Award given by the AAC&U (Association for American College¿s and Universities).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments - Sonia Nieto: Foreword - Kersha Smith / Marcella Runell Hall: Introduction - Joicelyn Dingle: Of My Purple Life - Stacey Gibson-Jessica Havens: It's All About the Rhythm: Birthing Sisterhood - Robin DiAngelo: "When You Do It to Me, It's Racism" - Nelle Mills: Filiation - Liza A. Talusan: The Support I Need - Jodi Van Der Horn-Gibson-Christina Marín: Marginal Friendship: An Exploration of Culture, Privilege, and Sisterhood - Thembisa S. Mshaka: Friends in Real Life - Amber Buggs: Race Is a Factor, Not a Foundation - Millicent R. Jackson: Across the Abyss - Felice Belle-Anne Murphy: Dear Sis/Love, Sis - Jennifer M. D. Matos-Gail E. Norskey: Choosing Each Other: Love, Friendship, and Racism - S. Lenise Wallace-Eman Mosharafa-Joni Schwartz: Black, White, and Brown: A Collaborative Autoethnography Analyzing the Race and Friendship of Three Women in Academia - Mira Sengupta-Samantha González-Block: A Joyful Dance Between Friends: The Story of Our Hindu-Muslim, Jewish-Christian Friendship - Paulette Dalpes-Berenecea Johnson Eanes: Sliding Doors, Intentional Choices - JLove Calderón: Ride or Die: Relationships Beyond Constructs - Roberta Samet-Imani Romney-Rosa: Letters - Rani Varghese-Allia Abdullah-Matta-Hye-Kyung Kang: "The Ladies Salon": Building Intellectual and Personal Collective(s) - Deinya Phenix: The "Crazy White Lady" and Other Archetypes in Workplace Friendships, Boundaries, and Power - Keisha L. Green: Trust - Jamila Lyiscott: Afterword: Crossing - Contributors.

Rezensionen

"Kersha Smith and Marcella Runell Hall have curated a touching set of essays that invite us to think with nuance about the challenges and rewards of interracial and cross-cultural friendships. The works bristle with honesty, dig-ging deep into the challenges of forming rare 'uncommon bonds' of sisterhood across differences that are not merely descriptive, but imbricated in the asymmetrical power relations that shape the world we share. If you are looking for a rousing chorus of Kumbaya, look elsewhere-this book reveals the complicated, difficult, self-reflective, and transformative work that makes it possible for adult women to call some few true loves, sista-friends." Deva Woodly-Davis, Associate Professor of Politics, The New School, and author of "The Politics of Common Sense"

"«UnCommon Bonds is a brave, thoughtful, complicated and honest examination of the challenges and rewards of building and sustaining authentic cross-race friendships. The book examines the issue in a range of creative and engaging ways-through autobiographical narratives, essays, dialogues, letters and critical social analysis linked to personal experience. The result is a provocative and urgent exploration of why this effort can be so hard, as well as a testament to how life affirming and essential cross-race relationships can be. Unlike other books that focus only on cross-race alliances between women of color and white women, this book also looks at the challenges and opportunities in the bonds created among women of color from diverse racial groups. Further, it attends to the in-tersections of class, gender, generation, transnational location and other aspects of identity that impact such rela-tionships-all the while keeping race central to the dialogue. The book offers breathtaking honesty and coura-geous truth telling from women of color about the damage white ignorance and cowardice can do to relation-ships-even within multiracial families. It also offers a wake-up call and some excellent modeling for white women about the commitment, humility, self-reflection and vulnerability necessary for being trustworthy partners/allies to women of color. The writing is vivid, strong and deeply moving with many powerful lessons to offer readers who struggle to create meaningful relationships across race. The hard-won knowledge reflected in this book is a gift to us all." Lee Anne Bell, Professor Emerita, Barnard College, and author of «Storytelling for Social Justice: Connecting Narrative and the Arts in Antiracist Teaching»