Wynter's Queer Revolution : Community Organizing and the Future of the Humanities

Name: Wynter's Queer Revolution : Community Organizing and the Future of the Humanities
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Wynter's Queer RevolutionCommunity Organizing and the Future of the Humanities\nAuthor(s): Hannah Ashley\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781041172048, 978-1041172048\nSynopsis\nWynters Queer Revolution: Community Organizing and the Future of the Humanities answers the question, Whats the point of teaching humanities in the interregnum?\n\nThe book emerges from the wisdom of colleagues teaching Community Change Studies at public colleges with Black, Brown, immigrant, and low-income students across the United Statesframing praxis with a vision for a Community Organizing Humanities. Grounded in practices of collective struggle, the pedagogies that nourish them, the decolonial thought of Sylvia Wynter, and generative insights of queer theory, this book licenses a new project for the humanities: cultivating revolutionary collective subjects. What if education itself, as Wynter suggests, were reimagined as an initiation .