| Course ID: | HIST(AFAM)(WMST) 3103. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | African American Women’s History |
Course
Description: | An examination of the history of African American women from the colonial period through to the present. Topics covered include enslavement, the relationship between Black and white women from the antebellum period through second-wave feminism, and Black women in the civil rights and Black Power movements. |
| Oasis Title: | African American Women's Hist |
| Pre or Corequisite: | Any HIST or AFAM or WMST or AFST or POLS or INTL or RELI or ENGL course |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | 1) Students will learn how Black women’s claims for bodily autonomy often collide with the regulatory forces of the state.
2) Students will engage critically with primary sources and secondary readings that explore the ways class, race, and gender impact the formation of coalitions against discrimination Black women face.
3) Students will think critically for themselves about how the seeds of racialization and gender discrimination from the past continue to impact Black women in the present. |
| Topical Outline: | 1. Slavery at Sea (The Middle Passage)
2. Slavery, Race, Class, and Sex
3. Black Women Post-Emancipation
4. Gender and Jim Crow
5. Intersectionality
6. Black Girlhood
7. Race, Gender, and Sexuality
8. Criminalization of Black Girls and Women
9. Black Women, WWII jobs, and the WPA
10. Black Women in the Civil Rights Movement
11. Black Women in the Black Power Movement and Black Panther Party
12. Sexuality Violence Against Black Women and Their Resistance
13. Black Women and Intimacy
14. Black Women and the Informal Economy
15. Black Motherhood
16. The Black Family
17. Black Women’s Internationalism
18. Black Women’s Leisure
19. Black Feminism
20. Black and White Women and the Feminism Movement
21. Black Women in Politics |