HIST 2512 - [Black Women in the 20th Century]

(crosslisted)
(also AMST 2512, ASRC 2512, FGSS 2512) (HA-AS)

Spring. 4 credits.

Next offered 2015-2016.

M. Washington.

This course focuses on African American women in the 20th century. The experiences of black women will be examined from a social, practical, communal, and gendered perspective. Topics include the Club Woman’s movement, suffrage, work, family, black and white women and feminism, black women and radicalism, and the feminization of poverty.