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This article conceptualizes community cultural wealth as a critical race theory (CRT) challenge to traditional interpretations of cultural capital. CRT shifts the research lens away from a deficit view of Communities of Color as places full of cultural poverty disadvantages, and instead focuses on and learns from the array of cultural knowledge, skills, abilities and contacts possessed by socially marginalized groups that often go unrecognized and unacknowledged. Various forms of capital nurtured through cultural wealth include aspirational, navigational, social, linguistic, familial and resistant capital. These forms of capital draw on the knowledges Students of Color bring with them from their homes and communities into the classroom. This CRT approach to education involves a commitment to develop schools that acknowledge the multiple strengths of Communities of Color in order to serve a larger purpose of struggle toward social and racial justice.

The influence of culture and ethnic background on women’s experience of domestic violence has been explored in research only recently. Here the authors review research about the impact of culture and minority status in the United States on women’s experience of domestic violence, considering family structure,immigration, acculturation, oppression, and community response. The authors encourage researchers and service providers to acknowledge the effects on women of sociopolitical dynamics, including racism, and to identify specific aspects of culture that are relevant to intimate partner abuse.

Cet article, qui se situe dans l’ensemble des discours sur les droits des autochtones, explore de façon spécifique le sujet du rapport des femmes à la territorialité. En utilisant comme étude de cas les cultures wabanakies de la côte Est, l’auteure réexamine de manière critique les documents historiques pour analyser le rapport des femmes au « lieu » à travers leur relation à leur environnement et elle étudie comment le contexte de cette relation a été transformé par les processus de colonisation. Puisque ce texte s’insère dans le large champ des discours sur les droits autochtones, il soulève des questions importantes sur la position des femmes autochtones dans les processus actuels de reconnaissance des droits et des titres, non seulement comme participantes actuelles mais aussi comme acteurs historiques.

Some members of stigmatized groups, such as Asian women, may be more likely to experience negative self-evaluations after exposure to a mainstream beauty standard than members of other stigmatized groups, such as Black women. In this study, 54 Asian women, 52 Black women, and 64 White women, were exposed to mainstream standards of beauty and compared themselves to these idealized images. It was hypothesized that although Black women would find these comparisons irrelevant, Asian women would see these targets as relevant for their comparisons, reflecting their striving for mainstream beauty standards. The results indicated that Black women did not find mainstream standards as relevant to themselves, and reported positive self-evaluations generally and about their bodies in particular. Asian women, on the other hand, responded differently than Black women and were more likely to endorse mainstream beauty standards in a similar fashion to White women. As predicted, Asian women also experienced greater dissatisfaction with their bodies than did Black women.

First- and second-generation youth of color are vulnerable to racialized images of gender and sexuality as reflected in and perpetuated by dominant forms of popular and consumer cultures. These popular images inform the process of Americanization, including racialized sexualization, for first- and second-generation Americans. This paper examines the way first- and second-generation Asian American girls and young women interpret and reinterpret popular representations of their positions in the United States. Data from two qualitative studies on Asian American young women will be presented.

As the interdisciplinary field of disability studies develops its own theoretical paradigms, it necessarily borrows from various sources. Such borrowing means that disability scholars have not had to reinvent the wheel but have been able to build on the conceptual foundations of identity-based theories that have grown out of other interdisciplinary fields, such as gender studies and critical race studies. But disability studies offers as much to its predecessors as it borrows from them. This essay explores the productive reciprocity between queer theory and disability studies, queer identity and crip identity, queer activism and crip activism.

Cet article donne un aperçu de l’argumentation qui met en lumière et différencie les principales coalitions internationales féministes luttant contre ce qui est couramment appelé le « trafic des femmes ». L’argumentation mise en évidence ne touche que la définition du phénomène et le différend qui sépare les coalitions sur le sujet, ainsi que leurs stratégies respectives pour l’éradiquer. L’auteure souligne en conclusion certains tangentes du féminisme radical qui, à son avis, se voient désormais remises en cause à l’occasion du débat sur les migrations des femmes. Ce débat entraînera-t-il, à son tour, se demande-t-elle, la migration d’un certain féminisme radical ?

Sommaire : points saillants de la situation des femmes autochtones au Canada. Structure de la population et lieu de résidence : •• En 2006, les femmes autochtones en Ontario représentaient environ 11 % de l’ensemble de la population d’identité autochtone. 31 % des femmes autochtones vivaient dans les provinces de l’Ouest (Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta et Colombie‑Britannique). •• En 2006, l’âge médian de la population autochtone était de 27 ans, contre 40 ans pour la population non autochtone, une différence de 13 ans. Les résultats de l’étude révèlent que chez les Indiens inscrits vivant dans les réserves, un peu plus de femmes (44 %) que d’hommes (35 %) étaient âgés de 19 ans et moins. En comparaison, le pourcentage des Indiens inscrits vivant hors réserve âgés de 19 ans et moins était un peu plus élevé tant chez les femmes (45 %) que chez les hommes (43 %). De plus, de tous les groupes d’identité autochtone, c’est chez la population inuite féminine (49 %) et masculine (46 %) que se trouvait la proportion la plus importante des 19 ans et moins. •• La population féminine autochtone vieillit, quoique à un rythme plus lent que la population féminine non autochtone. En 2006, les femmes de 60 ans et plus représentaient plus de 7 % de l’ensemble de la population d’identité autochtone. Utilisation et connaissance des langues •• Les résultats de l’étude révèlent que la majorité des femmes autochtones, soit 73 %, ont appris l’anglais comme langue maternelle, tandis que seulement 16 % ont d’abord appris une langue autochtone et 8 %, le français. La proportion de filles et de femmes autochtones dont la langue maternelle est une langue autochtone (langue amérindienne ou inuktitut) est relativement faible dans les groupes d’âge plus jeunes, et plus élevée dans les groupes d’âge plus âgés. L’anglais prend donc plus d’importance que les langues autochtones et le français au fil du temps. •• La proportion de la population de langue maternelle autochtone est plus élevée chez les Inuites. Un plus grand nombre de femmes inuites de tous les groupes d’âge, soit 65 %, indiquent que l’inuktitut est leur langue maternelle, contre 32 % pour l’anglais. Chez 28 % des Indiennes inscrites, la langue maternelle est une langue autochtone; la proportion est beaucoup plus faible chez les Métisses, à 3 %. •• La vaste majorité (75 %) des Autochtones parlent principalement l’anglais à la maison, alors que 16 % parlent une langue autochtone et 5 %, le français. En outre, 29 % des membres des Premières nations affirment qu’ils peuvent parler une langue autochtone suffisamment bien pour tenir une conversation. La proportion est cependant beaucoup plus élevée chez les membres des Premières nations vivant dans les réserves. En 2006, la moitié des membres des Premières nations vivant dans les réserves (51 %) pouvaient s’exprimer dans une langue autochtone, contre 12 % de ceux qui vivaient hors réserve. Les langues des Premières nations les plus répandues en 2006 étaient le cri (87 285), l’ojibway (30 255), l’oji‑cri (12 435) et le montagnais‑naskapi (11 080).

The inequalities that persist in America have deep historical roots. Evelyn Nakano Glenn untangles this complex history in a unique comparative regional study from the end of Reconstruction to the eve of World War II. During this era the country experienced enormous social and economic changes with the abolition of slavery, rapid territorial expansion, and massive immigration, and struggled over the meaning of free labor and the essence of citizenship as people who previously had been excluded sought the promise of economic freedom and full political rights.After a lucid overview of the concepts of the free worker and the independent citizen at the national level, Glenn vividly details how race and gender issues framed the struggle over labor and citizenship rights at the local level between blacks and whites in the South, Mexicans and Anglos in the Southwest, and Asians and haoles (the white planter class) in Hawaii. She illuminates the complex interplay of local and national forces in American society and provides a dynamic view of how labor and citizenship were defined, enforced, and contested in a formative era for white-nonwhite relations in America.

Explorations in Contemporary Feminist The Battle Against Oppression for Writers of Color, Lesbian and Transgender Communities is a work that bridges issues of oppression across diverse communities within the contemporary feminist movement. Fictional writings by authors such as Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Rose Tremain, and others are addressed in regard to their content of social messages. The major focus of this book is the need for personal-redefinition by members of marginalized communities seeking a ground of self-determination and respect, as expressed by various authors. The connections between authors' perspectives are rasied and a critical gaze is directed at the claim that personal choice equates with freedom.

Il arrive fréquemment que les débats sur l’action positive aux États-Unis traitent séparément les questions relatives à l’égalité et à la différence, aux droits individuels et aux identités de groupe. Pourtant, ce sont là des couples de concepts interdépendants, chacun étant lié à l’autre dans une tension nécessaire. Les tensions se manifestent de façon spécifique selon la période historique et doivent être analysées en fonction du contexte politique qui les porte et non comme des choix moraux ou éthiques a-historiques. Cet essai explore trois paradoxes — qui sont des tensions insolubles — propres aux débats sur l’action positive : 1) l’égalité est un principe absolu et une pratique historique contingente ; 2) les identités de groupe définissent des individus et leur refusent la pleine expression ou réalisation de leur individualité ; 3) les revendications de l’égalité impliquent l’acceptation et le rejet de l’identité de groupe produit par la discrimination. Autrement dit, les termes de l’exclusion, qui fondent la discrimination, sont à la fois refusés et reproduits dans la demande d’inclusion.

Reviews two books on postcolonial studies on modernity. "Gender, Sexuality, and Colonial Modernities," by Antoinette Burton; "The Erotic Margin: Sexuality and Spatiality in Alteritist Discount," by Irwin Scilick.

This volume provides an essential key to understanding the issues which characterise post-colonialism, explaining what it is, where it is encountered and why it is crucial in forging new cultural identities. As a subject, post-colonial studies stands at the intersection of debates about race, colonialism, gender, politics and language. In the language of post-colonial studies, some words are new, others are familiar words charged with new significance.

A revision of a hugely successful book; this is the 'bible' of contemporary black feminist thought and is widely cited and taught as a seminal text. Completely up-to-date with recent events, trends in popular culture, current events, and politics.

Les théologies féministes sont plurielles de par la diversité des expériences qui leur donnent naissance. S'il est vrai que l'expérience du sexisme et de l'androcentrisme traverse les discours féministes, elle n 'en est pas moins contextuelle. La prise en compte de ces expériences des femmes en théologie interroge et commence à modifier la pratique même de la théologie. La théologie mujerista née de la survie des femmes hispano-américaines en est un exemple remarquable.

This exciting new Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the contemporary state of the field. The editors’ introduction and forty-five essays cover feminist critical engagements with philosophy and adjacent scholarly fields, as well as feminist approaches to current debates and crises across the world. Authors cover topics ranging from the ways in which feminist philosophy attends to other systems of oppression, and the gendered, racialized, and classed assumptions embedded in philosophical concepts, to feminist perspectives on prominent subfields of philosophy. The first section contains chapters that explore feminist philosophical engagement with mainstream and marginalized histories and traditions, while the second section parses feminist philosophy’s contributions to with numerous philosophical subfields, for example metaphysics and bioethics. A third section explores what feminist philosophy can illuminate about crucial moral and political issues of identity, gender, the body, autonomy, prisons, among numerous others. The Handbook concludes with the field’s engagement with other theories and movements, including trans studies, queer theory, critical race, theory, postcolonial theory, and decolonial theory. The volume provides a rigorous but accessible resource for students and scholars who are interested in feminist philosophy, and how feminist philosophers situate their work in relation to the philosophical mainstream and other disciplines. Above all it aims to showcase the rich diversity of subject matter, approach, and method among feminist philosophers.

Talk is crucial to the way our identities are constructed, altered, and defended. Feminist scholars in particular have only begun to investigate how deeply language reflects and shapes who we think we are. This volume of previously unpublished essays, the first in the new series Studies in Language and Gender, advances that effort by bringing together leading feminist scholars in the area of language and gender, including Deborah Tannen, Jennifer Coates, and Marcyliena Morgan, as well as rising younger scholars. Topics explored include African-American drag queens, gender and class on the shopping channel, and talk in the workplace.

Looking Queer: Body Image in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Communities contains research, firsthand accounts, poetry, theory, and journalistic essays that address and outline the special needs of sexual minorities when dealing with eating disorders and appearance obsession. Looking Queer will give members of these communities hope, insight, and information into body image issues, helping you to accept and to love your body. In addition, scholars, health care professionals, and body image activists will not only learn about queer experiences and identity and how they affect individuals, but will also understand how some of the issues involved affect society as a whole. Dismantling the myth that body image issues affect only heterosexual women, Looking Queer explores body issues based on gender, race, class, age, and disability. Furthermore, this groundbreaking book attests to the struggles, pain, and triumph of queer people in an open and comprehensive manner. More than 60 contributors provide their knowledge and personal experiences in dealing with body image issues exclusive to the gay and transgender communities, including: exploring and breaking down the categories of gender and sexuality that are found in many body image issues finding ways to heal yourself and your community discovering what it means to “look like a dyke” or to “look gay” fearing fat as a sign of femininity determining what race has to do with the gay ideal discussing the stereotyped ”double negative”--being a fat lesbian learning strategies of resistance to societal ideals critiquing ”the culture of desire” within gay men’s communities that emphasizes looks above everything else Revealing new and complex dimensions to body image issues, Looking Queer not only discusses the struggles and hardships of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered persons, but looks at the processes that can lead to acceptance of oneself. Written by both men and women, the topics and research in Looking Queer offer insight into the lives of people you can relate to, enabling you to learn from their experiences so you, too, can find joy and happiness in accepting your body.