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This chapter’s focus is Black feminist pedagogical interventions in both academic and social movement spaces – physical and online. Black feminists have long searched for a meeting place in the struggle for racial and gender justice. We offer an exploration of Black feminist knowledges, pedagogies, and placemaking as mechanisms and strategies of social justice intervention in and beyond the academy. Historically, Black feminists have contributed significantly to the ongoing reconstruction/transformation of the social, political, intellectual, and curricular infrastructures which, in the current moment, have been crucial to the ongoing fight for social justice in physical and digital, academic, and movement spaces. Herein, we focus specifically on the commitment of Black feminists scholars, activists, and scholar-activists to teaching Black feminist tenets like intersectionality and decoloniality, and how to be in community and solidarity while being reflexive about public knowledge and accountability. In this moment of heightened anti-Black violence and surveillance, patriarchal oppression, environmental devastation, and increased global inequity, Black feminists have been able to develop and deploy a pedagogical praxis, while maintaining a rigor and flexibility that allows for their teachings to be easily accessible, digestible, and usable within social justice movement spaces. The offering is of knowledge produced for and by those in the margins.
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Baldwin, A.N., Brantuo, N.A., Pichardo, J.P. (2021). Black Feminisms and Pedagogical Space-Making. In: Mullen, C.A. (eds) Handbook of Social Justice Interventions in Education. Springer International Handbooks of Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35858-7_111
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