Writings of Healing and Resistance: Empathy and the Imagination-Intellect is a multi-authored, interdisciplinary journey. It continues the work started in Public Education and the Imagination-Intellect (Peter Lang, 2003) by extending the importance of empathy in developing an action-based social consciousness. Mary E. Weems doesn¿t argue for a specific way of pursuing an empathy connected to mind, body, and spirit: She acknowledges that just as artists work in various media, each with their own process for sharing how they think and feel about a particular topic or moment, each individual may arrive in their own way at a deep, spiritual, close identification with the experiences of the other. Writings of Healing and Resistance encompasses a variety of forms: autoethnography, ethnodrama, poetic inquiry, and critical essay, as well as scholars¿ work in a number of disciplines including communications, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, educational leadership, African American studies, and cultural foundations.

Mary E. Weems is a poet, playwright, performer, imagination-intellect theorist and Social Foundations scholar of urban education working in interpretive methods.

Contents: Norman K. Denzin: Introduction: Hope, Pedagogy and the Imagination-Intellect ¿ Mary E. Weems: One Love: Empathy and the Imagination-Intellect ¿ Susan V. Iverson: A Space for Imagination: The Power of Group Process and Reflective Writing to Cultivate Empathy for Self and Others ¿ Mitra Emad: Anarchic Thinking in Acupuncture¿s Origins: The Body as a Site for Cultivating Imagination-Intellect ¿ Dominique C. Hill: Call and Response: Writing to Answer the Urge of a Bruised Spirit ¿ Elyse Pineau: The Kindness of [Medical] Strangers: An Ethnopoetic Account of Embodiment, Empathy, and Engagement ¿ Amira Davis: The Poetics of Black Mother-Womanhood ¿ Mary E. Weems: Stop in the Name of: An Auto/ethnographic Response to Violence against Black Women ¿ Norman K. Denzin: A Telephone Call ¿ Durrell Callier: Tell It: A Contemporary Chorale for Black Youth Voices ¿ Akil Houston: Tasseography as a Healing Practice: Education in a Post-Racial Classroom ¿ Mary E. Weems: What Does It Mean to Be a Nigger in the Academy? ¿ Marcelo Diversi/Claudio Moreira: Migrant Stories: Searching for Healing in Autoethnographies of Diaspora ¿ Jonathan Wyatt: In Trouble: Desire, Deleuze, and the Middle-Aged Man.