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AAR, Eboni Marshall Turman, grace ji-sun kim, hope, identity, race, women of color scholarship

If you are attending the AAR in San Diego, please come to our session on Monday November 24, 2014 at 9a.m.

Women of Color Scholarship, Teaching, and Activism Group

A24-142

Theme: Women of Color, Hope, and the Politics of Resistance

Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Georgetown University, Presiding

Monday – 9:00 AM-11:30 AM

Convention Center-30A

This session will examine and explore how women of color use resistance to gain hope for a significantly just world. Women of color identity, politics and deconstruction of race will be explored, examined and discussed. In the anticipation of working towards a just society, the scope of analysis will include teaching and activism within different arenas.

Eunjoo Kim, Graduate Theological Union

A Reinterpretation of North Korean Refugee Women’s Spaces in a Perspective of Postcolonial Feminist Theology

Shabana Mir, Millikin University

Dance, Body, and Gaze: Muslim American Women’s Identities

Leah Gunning Francis, Eden Theological Seminary

These **sholes, They Always Get Away: Young Black Males, Risk, and the Hope for Survival in the Age of Trayvon Martin

Maria Liu Wong, Columbia University

Embodying a Strategy of Hope and Resistance: A Global Collaborative Inquiry of Christian Women Leaders in Theological Education

Business Meeting:

Eboni Marshall Turman, Duke University

Women of Color Scholarship, Teaching, and Activism Group

Statement of Purpose:

This Group fosters intellectual exchange in the fields of religious studies and theology as they are developing in diverse communities of color from a gendered analysis. While the AAR features Program Units from diverse communities of color, we provide a space for conversation between communities of color. This Group does not assume a prior “women of color” identity, but centers a woman of color analytic that deconstructs the intersecting logics of gender and race. At the same time, we do not hold to a “post-identity” framework and are also concerned with the status of women of color in the academy, the politics of pedagogy, and the relationship between women-of-color-centered activism and scholarship. Understanding identity as performative and shifting, we make the very category of “women of color” itself a site for political and intellectual engagement.

Leadership: