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States of Grace: Counterstories of a Black Woman in the Academy reveals the dynamic, mutli-dimensional presence of a scholar who brings her wholeness into her scholarship and teaching, providing insights and guidance along the way.

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States of Grace: Counterstories of a Black Woman in the Academy recognizes, acknowledges, and centers race and gender through the embodiment of Black womanhood in the academy in the context of grace. Encapsulated in concepts of grace, this book reveals the dynamic, multidimensional presence of a scholar who brings her wholeness into her scholarship and teaching, providing insights and guidance along the way.

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Acknowledgments - Introduction - Prologue - New Grace - Teaching and Learning Grace - Empowering Grace - Becoming and Understanding Through Grace - Forgiveness Through Grace - The "Race" in Grace - Closing Grace - Epilogue.

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"Dr. Theodorea Regina Berry´s new book, States of Grace: Counterstories of a Black Woman in the Academy , is the latest in a series of important works that continually force us to reckon with the interconnectedness of race and gender through the framework of critical race feminism. This book, which continues an important tradition of reflexive and transformational scholarship by critical Black women education scholars, draws on auto-ethnographic methods to reflect on the importance of engaged pedagogical practices that call attention to race and gender inequalities while warmly demanding and calling for a liberatory form of teaching and learning in the academy. This is an important book." -Marvin Lynn, Dean, Graduate School of Education, Portland State University

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Theodorea Regina Berry is Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Director of Recruitment and Engagement for the Graduate School at The University of Texas at San Antonio. She also holds the title of Associate Professor of Curriculum Studies in the College of Education and Human Development at the university.

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