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M. Jacqui Alexander

Jacqui Alexander is a teacher, scholar, activist and writer. She previously taught at Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut, where she held the Fuller-Maathai Chair. She has also taught in New York at the New School for Social Research, educating students on Gender studies and Feminist Theory and Cultural Studies. Where her teachings were geared towards Imperialism, Colonization and heterosexuality. Her “work has focused extensively on the relation between nationalism and sexuality and on the ways in which heterosexualization works as a verb to organize nation building projects across both neoimperial and neocolonial formations”. Works have “wrestled with the sacred dimensions of experience and the significance of sacred subjectivity”. “Alexander serves on the editorial boards of Feminist Review, Signs, and Dawn (Canada); she has lectured extensively in the United States, Canada, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Africa. She is a member of the Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action. Alexander is Cosby Endowed Chair in the Humanities at Spelman College and Professor of Women and Gender Studies, University of Toronto.”

Accomplishments

In 1997, M. Jacqui Alexander and Chandra Talpade Mohanty the two authors co-wrote the book in regards to several feminist theories, named Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures. They both spoke amongst the topics of "colonialism, reframing identities, etc." M. Jacqui Alexander was awarded the the 1997 Guggenheim Fellowship award in the field of Anthropology and Cultural Studies for the competition in Latin America and Caribbean. M. Jacqui Alexander created the book Pedagogies of Crossing in 2005, Jacqui Alexander discussing several feminist diasporas. Jacqui Alexander writes the book

Pedagogies of Crossing

Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred was created by M. Jacqui Alexander in the year 2005. This text takes on her past works and combines all her findings emphasizing feminism, queer and critical race theories. In this book it highlights critical imperatives that gained high levels of importance when relating to neo-imperialism and neocolonialism. It touches on transnational frameworks that connect to colonialism, the political economy and racial formations. M. Jacqui Alexander takes into consideration multiculturalism and its power in explaining that its conditions are ethical and spiritual.

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Denise de Caires Narain looks at the issues facing feminist discourse and uses Alexander’s analysis to highlight the ways that the institutionalization of feminism has taken away from its discourse. Alexander suggests in order to reconnect with women transnationally, we must understand the spiritual connections which exist but may have been forgotten about. Narin states that in order to fix the state of feminism we must address the issues and make an effort to fix them in order to achieve feminist solidarity.

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Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures

In Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures by M. Jacqui Alexander takes on an editing role when evaluating the works of Angela Y. Davis, Cynthia Enloe, Gail Lewis and Ritu Menon. This book is is dedicated to the famous feminist Andre Lord who died November 17, 1992, she discussed frameworks developed on by the two cowriters. Through both writers political and ethical understanding they analyze decolonization in the late 20th century. In challenging the arguments of global feminists it creates topics regarding works involved in transformative political projects in several locations of the globe. These being Asia, Africa, Europe and North America. The collection of new ideas and arguments look to achieve new talks about "feminist organizing practices as a way of environing and struggling for democratic futures" through the written essays. Gail Lewis discusses cultural feminist challenges through explaining what it means to live in a postcolonial world like Britain as a black and white feminist. Through these Genealogies it assists the understanding of the grounds that politics has been made on pushing those to change it.