Learning, Teaching, Re-Membering and Enacting Black Feminist Sociology at a Black Women's College

In this chapter, the authors excavate how the department of sociology and anthropology at Spelman enacts black feminist sociology and how it does not. They talks about their community building with other Spelman sociology professors, students, alumnae and community partners. The authors offer some musings on how the department of sociology and anthropology at Spelman will continue to shape black feminist sociology and the discipline of sociology in the 21st century and beyond. Diana Danner was the first person whose gender politics as a white woman helped to understand the complexities of being forced to perform a gender identity in a space that encourages the uplift of women but does not condone or embrace gender role nonconformity.