Professors Jennifer James and Jennifer C. Nash on Ferguson

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GW Professors Jennifer James and Jennifer C. Nash are part of a forum accessible online this month in Feminist Studies.  The forum is on “Teaching about Ferguson,” with six professors reflecting on the pedagogical challenges of teaching about state-sanctioned violence against people of color in the United States.  There is direct access to Feminist Studies online for the whole month of April.
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Six professors reflect on the pedagogical challenges of teaching about state-sanctioned violence against people of color in the United States:

  • Jennifer C. Nash, Teaching about Ferguson: An Introduction 
  • Jennifer James, Looking
  • Sylvanna M. Falcón, The Globalization of Ferguson: Pedagogical Matters about Racial Violence 
  • Sarah Jane Cervenak, On Not Teaching about Violence: Being in the Classroom After Ferguson 
  • Rebecca Wanzo, The Deadly Fight Over Feelings 
  • Treva B. Lindsey, Post-Ferguson: A “Herstorical” Approach to Black Violability
To “speak about Ferguson is always to speak about more than Ferguson,” as Jennifer C. Nashnotes. “Ferguson” has become shorthand for the legal murder and devaluation of racially marked bodies. Nash reflects on teaching about racial violence in the midst of racial violence. Jennifer James argues that we must “accept the unleashing of historical mourning as part of what we do.” Sylvanna M. Falcón connects racialized police violence within the United States with state violence outside the United States. Sarah Jane Cervenak builds on Trinh T. Minh-ha’s documentary concept of “speaking nearby” to teach “near” racial and sexual violence. Rebecca Wanzo analyzes anger over Mary Engelbreit’s transgressive portrayal of a mother crying in the wake of Michael Brown’s death. Treva B. Lindsey reminds us of the role of trans* and queer people in racial justice movements, and counters narratives about racial violence that center only on Black men.
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