AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S ACTIVISM (19TH & 20TH CENTURIES)

AFROAMER/GEN&WS 624

Course Description

Examines Black women's struggles for racial justices; reconsiders conventional notions of leadership, politics and protest. Topics include abolitionism, anti-lynching campaigns, woman suffrage, labor movement, club movement, cultural expressions, civil rights protest, Black feminism/womanism, poverty and welfare rights, environmental racism, etc.

Prerequisties

Sophomore standing

Satisfies

This course does not satisfy any prerequisites.

Credits

Not Reported

Offered

Not Reported

Grade Point Average

3.57

20.54% from Historical

Completion Rate

100%

11.9% from Historical

A Rate

57.14%

73.27% from Historical

Class Size

-32.98% from Historical

Instructors (2025 Fall)

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AFROAMER/GEN&WS 625

This course focuses on the emerging field of gender studies in the scholarship on the post-World War II civil rights movement in the United States.

INTRODUCTION TO BLACK WOMEN WRITERS

AFROAMER/GEN&WS 222

An introduction to the writings of Afro-American women from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. Fiction, autobiography, non-fiction prose, and poetry will be read and discussed.

BLACK WOMEN IN AMERICA: RECONSTRUCTION TO THE PRESENT

AFROAMER/GEN&WS 324

Explores African American women's experience from waning days of slavery to present. Topics include slavery, emancipation, reconstruction, segregation, migration, urban and rural poverty, civil rights, nationalism, feminism and sexual politics.

BLACK FEMINISMS

AFROAMER/GEN&WS 333

Uses an interdisciplinary framework to interrogate core assumptions, arguments, and silences in past and present black feminist thought.

INTRODUCTION TO BLACK WOMEN'S STUDIES

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This course will provide students with an overvview of the field of Black women's studies.

AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S ACTIVISM (19TH & 20TH CENTURIES)

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