WGSS-320 Black Women in American Black Freedom Struggles (3)

This course, spanning the period from the late nineteenth century to the present, centers the activism of Black women in the United States and the multiple ways they challenged inequality and injustice in the arenas of race, class, gender, and, to a lesser extent, sexuality. Reading historical scholarship on Black women social justice workers, students learn about Black women’s activism on a range of issues, stretching various eras and ideological perspectives, including the anti-lynching movement, Garveyite Black nationalism, the civil rights, and Black power movements. Students examine how Black women have continually reformulated notions of Black feminism as a lens to spotlight Black women’s experiences as different from Black men’s but also White women’s in the United States. Crosslist: AFAM-320.