Activist scholarship : antiracism, feminism, and social change / edited by Julia Sudbury and Margo Okazawa-Rey.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Activist scholarship and the Neoliberal University / Julia Sudbury and Margo Okazawa-Rey -- 1. Challenging penal dependency : activist scholars and the antiprison movement / Julia Sudbury -- 2. Native studies and critical pedagogy : beyond the academic-industrial complex / Andrea Smith -- 3. Challenging patriarchal pedagogies by strengthening feminist intellectual work in African universities / Amina Mama -- 4. "One unit of the past" : action research project on domestic violence in Japan / Mieko Yoshihama -- 5. Solidarity work in transnational feminism : the question of class and location / Linda Carty and Monisha Das Gupta -- 6. Organizing the motley crew and challenging the security of national states / Nandita Sharma and Cynthia Wright -- 7. Transforming pedagogies : imagining internationalist/feminist/antiracist literacies / Piya Chatterjee -- 8. Strange sisters and odd fellows : trans-activism as antiracist pedagogy / Bobby J. Noble -- 9. Linking "book knowledge" to "lived experience" : incorporating political tours of our communities into classrooms / Glenn Omatsu -- 10. Three dilemmas of a queer activist scholar of color / Michael Hames-García -- 11. Solidarity with Palestinian women : notes from a Japanese Black U.S. feminist / Margo Okazawa-Rey.

Can scholars generate knowledge production and pedagogy that bolster local and global forms of resistance to U.S. imperialism, racial/gender oppression, and the economic violence of capitalist globalization? This book explores what happens when scholars create active engagements between the academy and communities of resistance. In so doing, it suggests a new direction for antiracist and feminist scholarship, rejecting models of academic radicalism that remain unaccountable to grassroots social movements and exploring the community and the academy as interlinked sites of struggle. The chapters are authored by leading scholars from the U.S., Canada, India, Japan, and the UK who are involved in feminist, antiracist, indigenous sovereignty, transgender liberation, antiglobalization, antimilitary, and antiprison movements. They provide models and the opportunity for critical reflection for students and faculty as they struggle to align their commitments to social justice with their roles in the academy. At the same time, they explore the tensions and challenges of engaging in such contested work. --Publisher description.