Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

GIVING THANKS

Introduction. Post-Oppositional Resistance? Threshold Theories Defined and Enacted

1. Beyond Intersectionality: Theorizing Interconnectivity with/in This Bridge Called My Back:

2. "American" Individualism, Variations on a Theme; or, Self-Reliance, Transformed!

3. "I am your other I": Transformational Identity Politics

4. "There is no arcane place for return": Revisionist Mythmaking with a Difference

5. From Self-Help to Womanist Self-Recovery: or, How Paula Gunn Allen Changed My Mind

6. Pedagogies of Invitation: From Status-Quo Stories to Cosmic Connections

Appendix 1. Abridged Syllabus for a U.S. Women of Colors Course

Appendix 2. Guidelines for a Workshop on Our Spoken Word: Poetry for Self and Community

Notes

Works Cited and Consulted

Index

In this lively, thought-provoking study, AnaLouise Keating writes in the traditions of radical U.S. women-of-color feminist/womanist thought and queer studies, inviting us to transform how we think about identity, difference, social justice and social change, metaphysics, reading, and teaching. Through detailed investigations of women of color theories and writings, indigenous thought, and her own personal and pedagogical experiences, Keating develops transformative modes of engagement that move through oppositional approaches to embrace interconnectivity as a framework for identity formation, theorizing, social change, and the possibility of planetary citizenship. Speaking to many dimensions of contemporary scholarship, activism, and social justice work, Transformation Now! calls for and enacts innovative, radically inclusionary ways of reading, teaching, and communicating.