Resistance education

Description:

This book examines through the use and development of an anti-oppression/anti-colonial methodology, African/Black women' counsellors living in Canada (Turtle Island) experiences of intersectional violence working in women abuse shelters in Toronto and their resistance against many forms of oppression. Major contributions of this work are: 1) Historicizing of African/Black Women counsellors working in Woman Abuse/Domestic Violence communities. 2) Development and creation of an anti-oppression qualitative methodology for conducting emancipatory, inclusive research. 3) Theorization of African/Black Feminism Transnationally. 4) Critical examination of the use of the arts, expressive arts, art-informed, and creativity for theory and methodology.

subjects: anti-oppression qualitative research methodology,  Attitudes,  African Women,  Black Women,  Counsellors,  counselling,  Employees,  Racism,  Sexism,  Social conditions,  anti-colonialism,  decolonization,  Transational connections,  expressive arts,  art-informed,  resistance,  Woman abuse,  domestic violence,  feminism,  Women's shelters,  Women, Black

People: Roberta K. Timothy

Places: Ontario,  Toronto,  African Diaspora,  Africa,  Caribbean,  Latin America,  Brazil,  Cuba,  Canada

Times: 2005-