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Brings together leading scholars to examine how integrating race, gender, ethnicity, and class into higher education can reshape scholarship, pedagogy, and the liberal arts curriculum.
As colleges and universities confront the urgent need to rethink traditional academic frameworks, Transforming the Curriculum offers a vision for inclusive and interdisciplinary education. Bringing together leading scholars in ethnic studies, women's studies, history, literature, and cultural theory, this landmark collection explores how race, gender, class, and identity reshape the liberal arts curriculum.
From feminist pedagogy and anti-racist teaching strategies to African American, Chicano, Jewish, Asian American, and American Indian studies, the essays in this volume challenge conventional academic boundaries while offering practical models for curricular reform. Contributors address the politics of representation, the transformation of scholarship, and the evolving role of higher education in a multicultural society.
Featuring influential voices including Johnnetta B. Cole, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Ruth Frankenberg, and Frank Chin, this collection remains an essential resource for educators, students, and scholars committed to transforming teaching and learning.
"This book represents a new vision of curricular change in higher education and presents the theoretical and practical bases for accomplishing it. It bridges the gap between women's studies and ethnic studies, two interdisciplinary bodies of knowledge that have provided significant and important pedagogical innovations in the academy; the dialogue between these two fields has the potential to guide thinking about curricular change for faculty in all fields of study." —Betty Schmitz, University of Maryland, College Park
"Universities are being pressured by ethnic groups and women to revise their curricula to reflect ethnic and gender content. This book provides many insights and resources that can be used to help universities to revise their curricula to more accurately depict the experiences of ethnic groups and women. Many of the chapters in the book provide fresh perspectives, new scholarship, and examples of teaching strategies and materials that are effective in integrating content about women and ethnic groups in the university curriculum." —James A. Banks, University of Washington, Seattle
Johnnella E. Butler is Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. John C. Walter is Professor in the Department of American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. Dr. Walter is the author of The Harlem Fox: J. Raymond Jones and Tammany, 1920-1970, published by SUNY Press.
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Laurel Wilkening
Introduction
Johnnella E. Butler
Part I: Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies: Interrelationships
1. The Difficult Dialogue of Curriculum Transformation: Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies
Johnnella E. Butler
2. Funding Women's Studies
Caryn McTighe Musil and Ruby Sales
3. Private Foundation Grants to American Ethnic Studies Departments and Programs, 1972–1988: Patterns and Prospects
Katharine Bolland and John C. Walter
4. Different Voices: A Model Institute for Integrating Women of Color Into Undergraduate American Literature and History Courses
Johnnella E. Butler and Betty Schmitz
Part II: The Cutting Edge of the Liberal Arts: Some Essentials in Pedagogy and Theory Building
5. Transforming the Curriculum: Teaching About Women of Color
Johnnella E. Butler
6. Teaching "White Women, Racism and Anti-Racism" in a Women's Studies Program
Ruth Frankenberg
7. Gender and the Transformation of a Survey Course in Afro-American History
John C. Walter
8. Black Studies in Liberal Arts Education
Johnnetta B. Cole
9. Towards an Epistemology of Ethnic Studies: African American Studies and Chicano Studies Contributions
R. A. Olguin
10. Is Jewish Studies Ethnic Studies?
Howard Adelman
11. The Politics of Jewish Invisibility in Women's Studies
Evelyn Torton Beck
Part III: The Cutting Edge of the Liberal Arts: Some Implications for Scholarship
12. Gender in the Context of Race and Class
Elizabeth V. Spelman
13. Asian American Literary Traditions: Real vs. Fake
Frank Chin, Jeffery Chan, Lawson Inada, and Shawn Wong
14. Time and Time Again: Notes Toward an Understanding of Radical Elements in American Indian Fiction
Kathryn Shanley
15. The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window: Toward a Transformative Aesthetic
Johnnella E. Butler
16. Armenian American Women: The First Word...
Arlene Avakian
Part IV: Ethnic Studies, Women's Studies, and the Liberal Arts Curriculum: Retrospect and Prospect
17. A Black Feminist Perspective on the Academy
Beverly Guy-Sheftall
18. A Critical Assessment of Bloom: The Closing of the American Mind?
Jonathan Majek
19. Praxis and the Prospect of Curriculum Transformation
Johnnella E. Butler and John C. Walter
Contributors
Index