Diasporic Womanist Sociology

Introducing and engaging with womanist frameworks to center the lives of Global South women who live under colonial oppressions, this collection centers the consciousness, spirituality, philosophy, wisdom, community institutions, and ecologies found in a variety of Global South regions and diasporas.

Diasporic Womanist Sociology offers a decolonial approach to critical research, interpretive frameworks, pedagogy, mentorship, activism, and building academia-community collectives of solidarity, presenting womanism as a practical framework for personal and professional development for sociologists and scholars in other fields. With contributors from South Asia, Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia, and North America, this book draws on tenets of womanism to shape their practice and engagement with students, scholars, and activists, especially those of the Global South and its diasporas.

This volume makes critical contributions to fields ranging from Gender and Women Studies, Race and Ethnic Studies, and Decolonial and Postcolonial Theory, and can be assigned to undergraduate and graduate students to explore the foundational work of Black Feminism and gender non-conforming people of color and an inclusive framework of identity, spirituality, and pursuit of social justice.

Sancha Doxilly Medwinter, PhD, is a Diasporic Womanist Sociologist and Community-based Researcher. Her most recent book is Ecologies of Inequity: How Disaster Response Reconstitutes Race and Class Inequality. She is also a Co-author of Caribbean Womanism: Decolonial Theorizing of Caribbean
Women’s Oppression, Survival, and Resistance.

Tannuja Rozario Latchminarain, PhD, is a Diasporic Womanist Activist and Scholar. Her work has focused on the gender-based violence and reproductive health experiences of Indo-Caribbean women. She has published in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Social Science and Medicine, and International Sociology.
Dr Latchminarain is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, where she teaches courses on gender and law.

Monisha Issano Jackson is a PhD Student in Sociology at Georgia State University. She has published work on queer urban spaces and intersecting oppressions as well as colorist and multiracial microaggressions. She is currently conducting research on Black queer women’s experiences in the United Kingdom and United States.