Used Book in Good Condition</br></br>Product Description</br></br><div>M. Jacqui Alexander is one of the most important theorists of transnational feminism working today. <I>Pedagogies of Crossing</I> brings together essays she has written over the past decade uniting her incisive critiques which have had such a profound impact on feminist queer and critical race theories with some of her more recent work. In this landmark interdisciplinary volume Alexander points to a number of critical imperatives made all the more urgent by contemporary manifestations of neoimperialism and neocolonialism. Among these are the need for North American feminism and queer studies to take up transnational frameworks that foreground questions of colonialism political economy and racial formation; for a thorough re-conceptualization of modernity to account for the heteronormative regulatory practices of modern state formations; and for feminists to wrestle with the spiritual dimensions of experience and the meaning of sacred subjectivity.</P><P>In these meditations Alexander deftly unites large often contradictory historical processes across time and space. She focuses on the criminalization of queer communities in both the United States and the Caribbean in ways that prompt us to rethink how modernity invents its ow