Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Foreword

DoVeanna Fulton

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Jonathan Chism

PART I: – African American History

Introduction:Intersections between Critical Race Studies and History

David Ryden

Chapter 1: “‘I wuz like a petty dog”: White Animalization of Enslaved Blacks

Rachael Pasierowska

Chapter 2: “Slave to Soldier: United States Colored Troops in the West During the Civil War”

Scott L. Stabler and Martin Hershock

Chapter 3: “Fighting on Two Fronts: Black Educational Self Determination and Community Preservation in Houston, Texas”

Jesus Jesse Esparza

Part II: African Americans and Education

Introduction: Intersections Between Education and Critical Race Studies

Jonathan Chism

Chapter 4: “Getcha Lesson”: Gleaning Wisdom from African American K-12 Educators Who Endured the Desegregation of Public Schools

Darius M. Benton

Chapter 5: “Good” Pedagogy: Arguments for Critical Pedagogy in Higher Education

Felicia L. Harris and Nina Barbieri

Chapter 6: “Surviving the Wild West: A Critical Race Feminist Analysis of African American Women Students’ Experiences with Gendered Racism at the University of Colorado-Boulder”

LeAnna T. Luney

PART III: African American Literary and Cultural Studies

Introduction: Intersections Between African American Literature, Cultural Studies, and Critical Race Studies

Vida Robertson

Chapter 7: “Rememory and Toni Morrison’s Beloved: A Counter-Narrative to Forgetting America’s Past”

Ordner W. Taylor

Chapter 8: “The Unscripted Script of Black YouTube (BYT): The Working Identities of African American Family Vloggers”

Jenean McGee

Chapter 9: “HIV/AIDS, Sexualized Anti-Blackness, and Bodily Geographies of Struggle”

Khyree Davis

PART IV: African American Psychology and African American Religion

Introduction: Intersections Between African American Psychology, African American Religion, and Critical Race Studies

Stacie DeFreitas and Jonathan Chism

Chapter 10: “The State of Black Mental Health: Understanding Disparities Through the Lens of Critical Race Psychology”

Erlanger A. Turner and Tinicia C. Turner

Chapter 11: “The True Measure of American Greatness: Power, Relationality, and Community in the Thinking of Bernard Loomer, Howard Thurman, and Martin Luther King Jr.”

Darrius Hills

Appendix: Suggested Readings

Index

About the Contributors

About the Author

Jonathan Chism is assistant professor of history at the University of Houston-Downtown and a fellow of the Center for Critical Race Studies.

Stacie Craft DeFreitas is a licensed psychologist, the Interim Associate Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, a fellow for the Center for Critical Race Studies, and an associate professor of psychology at the University of Houston- Downtown.

Vida Robertson is associate professor of English and humanities and serves as the Director of the Center for Critical Race Studies at the University of Houston-Downtown.

David Ryden is professor of history at the University of Houston-Downtown, Interim Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and a fellow for the Center for Critical Race Studies.

Reviews

Critical Race Studies Across Disciplines further bolsters the academic and practical utility of critical race theory in understanding the real-world implications of systemic oppression throughout the world. Scholars and the public will be drawn to the compelling arguments for and evidence of CRT's essential role of 'scholactivism' in redressing racial inequities ingrained in every aspect of life in the U. S. and beyond. This book is a 'must read' and 'must do.'

Critical Race Studies Across Disciplines: Resisting Racism through Scholactivism is an invaluable text that advances a complex analysis of what drives the persistence of US racial injustice. It builds upon long-standing critical theories and real-lived accountsthat emerge from and inform the evolution of African American culture in its communal quest for social justice. Chism et al have love-crafted an anthology that merits becoming a landmark in the burgeoning field of critical race theory. What other normative accounts of history in various academic disciplines discount and disregard, this text lays bare for all to see and comprehend. In so doing, it counters and corrects the colorblind rhetoric, racial inequities, and racial dissension that make up the study of these yet to be united states of America.