Minna Salami, "Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone" (Amistad, 2021)
Minna Salami's book\xa0Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone\xa0(Amistad/HarperCollins, 2021)\xa0is a collection of thought provoking essays that explore questions central to how we see ourselves, our history, and our world.\n-What does it mean to be oppressed?\n-What does it mean to be liberated?\n-Why do women choose to follow authority even when they can be autonomous?\n-What is the cost of compromising one\u2019s true self?\n-What narratives particularly subjugate women and people of African heritage?\n-What kind of narrative can heal and empower?\nAs she considers these questions, Salami offers fresh insights on key cultural issues that impact women\u2019s lives, including power, beauty, and knowledge. She also examines larger subjects, such as Afrofuturism, radical Black feminism, and gender politics, all with a historical outlook that is also future oriented. Combining a storyteller\u2019s narrative playfulness and a social critic\u2019s intellectual rigor, Salami draws upon a range of traditions and ideologies, feminist theory, popular culture\u2014including insights from Ms. Lauryn Hill, Beyonc\xe9, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, and others\u2014science, philosophy, African myths and origin stories, and her own bold personal narrative to establish a language for change and self-liberation.\nSensuous Knowledge\xa0inspires reflection and challenge us to formulate or own views. Using ancestral knowledge to steer us toward freedom, Salami reveals the ways that women have protested over the years in large and small ways\u2014models that inspire and empower us to define our own sense of womanhood today.\nIn this riveting meditation, Salami ask women to break free of the prison made by ingrained male centric biases, and build a house themselves\u2014a home that can nurture us all.\nLearn more\xa0about author Minna Salami at the MsAfropolitan blog.\n Lee M. Pierce (she/they) is an Assistant Professor at SUNY Geneseo specializing in rhetoric, race, and U.S. political culture. They also host the Media & Communications and Language channels for New Books Network and their own podcast titled RhetoricLee Speaking.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies