Transforming the Curriculum

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