ABSTRACT
Black women faculty and students live at the intersections of race, class, and gender. This chapter interrogates the role of the college curriculum as a lever for and potentially against institutionalized racism at the intersection of sexism. It considers the ways Black women's scholarship is assigned and deployed in college classrooms, and the influence that interplay has on pedagogy and the experiences of Black women faculty and graduate students. Examining the curricular and pedagogical fruits that arise within the lived experiences of Black women academicians encompasses much of author's scholarly work. The chapter explores the flexibility of Austin's piece for theorizing varied Black-feminized subversive practices. Womanist testimony lives at the intersection of three theoretical and methodological traditions: womanist theology; Black liberation theology, specifically Black Church testimony; and indigenous methodologies. A commitment to an explicit research agenda and an analysis of how that agenda manifests in pedagogical practice was readily apparent in both Yvetta and Priscilla's narratives.
