20th Century Black Feminist Thought & Practice in the US

V97.0303-001

Professor Jennifer Morgan

Prerequisite: permission of instructor

This advanced undergraduate seminar in black feminist thought and practice explores black women's writings (literature, essays, speeches, etc.), political activism, music, and film with special attention to the ways black women have negotiated their roles as cultural workers who are often caught between racial and gender boundaries in American society. Examines various forms of social/sexual policing, larger social narratives about black women's sexuality, black women and urban poverty debates, class politics within feminism(s) and gender, and class tensions within black social protest movements.