Centering Women of Color in Academic Counterspaces: A Critical Race Analysis of Teaching, Learning, and Classroom Dynamics

Annemarie Vaccaro · Melissa J. Camba-Kelsay

Sep 2016 · Rowman & Littlefield

About this ebook

Centering Women of Color in Academic Counterspaces offers a rich critical race feminist analysis of teaching, learning, and classroom dynamics among diverse students in a classroom counterspace centered on women of color. Annemarie Vaccaro and Melissa J. Camba-Kelsay focus on an undergraduate course called Sister Stories, which used counter-storytelling to explore the historical and contemporary experiences of women of color in the United States. Rich student narratives offer insight into the process and products of transformational learning about complex social justice topics such as: oppression, microaggressions, identity, intersectionality, tokenism, objectification, inclusive leadership, aesthetic standards, and diversity dialogues.

About the author

Annemarie Vaccaro is faculty member in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies and College Student Personnel Program at the University of Rhode Island.

Melissa J. Camba-Kelsay is coordinator for student leadership and instructor in the minor in Leadership Studies in the Center for Student Leadership Development at the University of Rhode Island.