Hear our voices : : race, gender and the status of Black South African women in the academy / / edited by Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela and Zine Magubane.

• Superior document: Imagined South Africa ; 8
• TeilnehmendeR: Magubane, Zine,; Mabokela, Reitumetse Obakeng,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Imagined South Africa ; 8.; Social Sciences - Book Archive 2000-2006.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (126 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

This book has a twofold goal: first, the contributors aim to expose the racist and sexist practices that still suffuse the instutitional culture of South-African universities. Secondly, they seek to apply the alternative theoretical and methodological frameworks of black feminist thought. However particular their individual stories, this books offers rich material of interest to women scholars everywhere.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / Editors: Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela and Zine Magubane -- Abbreviations / Editors: Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela and Zine Magubane -- One Introduction / Zine Magubane -- Two ‘Ambiguity’ Is My Middle Name: A Research Diary / Yvette Abrahams -- Three Language and Power, Languages of Power: A Black Woman’s Journey Through Three South African Universities / Pumla Dineo Gqola -- Four A Pigment of the Imagination? Race, Subjectivity, Knowledge and the Image of the Black Intellectual / Zine Magubane -- Five Walking the Tightrope: The Intersection of Race, Gender and Culture in Higher Education / Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela -- Six Stand out, Stand up, Move out: Experiences of Black South African Women at Historically White Universities / Authors: Cheryl-Ann Potgieter and Anne-Gloria Senkgane Moleko -- Seven Two Dreams Unveiled: Exploring the Self from the Margins / Jo-Anne Juliana Prins -- Eight The Journey Ahead … / Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela and Liliana Mina -- Back Matter -- Notes on Contributors / Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela and Zine Magubane -- Index / Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela and Zine Magubane.