Special Issue on Interstices: Inheriting Women of Color Feminist Philosophy, Winter 2014

1 Kristie Dotson

Editor’s Introduction: “Thinking Familiar with the Interstitial”: An Introduction

Articles AN OPENING CALL: INHERITING WORLDS

18 María Lugones

Musing: Reading the Nondiasporic from within Diasporas

CALL: BECOMING WOMEN OF COLOR

23 The Santa Cruz Feminist of Color Collective

Building on “the Edge of Each Other’s Battles”: A Feminist of Color Multidimensional Lens

RESPONSES: CENTERING WOMEN OF COLOR

41 Shireen Roshanravan

Motivating Coalition: Women of Color and Epistemic Disobedience

59 Namita Goswami

Europe as an Other: Postcolonialism and Philosophers of the Future

CALL: ILLUMINATING COMPLEX PRESENCES

75 Falguni A. Sheth

Interstitiality: Making Space for Migration, Diaspora, and Racial Complexity

94 Vivian M. May

“Speaking into the Void”? Intersectionality Critiques and Epistemic Backlash

RESPONSES: COMPLEX PRESENCING

113 Amrita Banerjee

Race and a Transnational Reproductive Caste System: Indian Transnational Surrogacy

129 Alisa Bierria

Missing in Action: Violence, Power, and Discerning Agencyiv Hypatia

146 Emily S. Lee

The Ambiguous Practices of the Inauthentic Asian American Woman

164 Laura Gillman

Anancyism and the Dialectics of an Africana Feminist Ethnophilosophy: Sandra Jackson-Opoku’s The River Where Blood Is Born

CALL: CONSIDERING WOMEN OF COLOR FEMINISTS INHABITING ACADEMIC PHILOSOPHY

182 Stephanie Rivera Berruz

Musing: Inhabiting Philosophical Space: Reflections from the Reasonably Suspicious

189 V. Denise James

Musing: A Black Feminist Philosopher: Is That Possible?

196 Elena Flores Ruíz

Musing: Spectral Phenomenologies: Dwelling Poetically in Professional Philosophy

RESPONSES: WOMEN OF COLOR FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY IN THE ACADEMY AND BEYOND

205 Rozena Maart

Race and Pedagogical Practices: When Race Takes Center Stage in Philosophy

221 Jacqueline M. Martinez

Culture, Communication, and Latina Feminist Philosophy: Toward a Critical Phenomenology of Culture

237 Devonya N. Havis

“Now, How You Sound”: Considering a Different Philosophical Praxis

Book Reviews

253 Yuanfang Dai The Many Dimensions of Chinese Feminism by Ya-Chen Chen

257 Ariane Cruz The Erotic Life of Racism by Sharon Patricia Holland