African American Women's Activism (19th & 20th Centuries)
The course examines Black women’s struggles for racial justice across the 19th and 20th centuries through major movements and cultural expressions.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2013: 2.67 GPA, 16.7% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Fall 2021: 3.75 GPA, 83.3% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Fall 2022: 3.57 GPA, 71.4% A/AB (n=7 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Analyze the real-world impact of some of the important 20th century attempts by African American women writers and scholars to construct different accounts of women’s experience in the slave system and in early decades of freedom.
Differentiate and compare the varying impacts of fiction and biographical texts and historical works to African American women’s activism.
Develop critical reading and writing skills about racial representation, resistance under repression, and the specifics of organizing principles of women’s movements.
Develop a scholarly project through extensive archival research about African American Women’s activism.
Source: UW Guide 1· UW Guide 2
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- Sophomore standing
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the class
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2013: 2.67 GPA, 16.7% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Fall 2021: 3.75 GPA, 83.3% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Fall 2022: 3.57 GPA, 71.4% A/AB (n=7 letter grades).
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Topics
- Abolitionism, anti-lynching campaigns, woman suffrage, labor movement, club movement, cultural expressions, civil rights protest, Black feminism/womanism, poverty and welfare rights, environmental racism.
- Conventional notions of leadership, politics, and protest.
Skills
- Analyzing the real-world impact of 20th-century attempts by African American women writers and scholars to construct different accounts of women’s experience.
- Differentiating and comparing the impacts of fiction, biographical texts, and historical works on African American women’s activism.
- Developing critical reading and writing skills regarding racial representation, resistance under repression, and organizing principles of women’s movements.
- Developing a scholarly project through extensive archival research about African American Women’s activism.
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