HIST 2512 - Black Women in the 20th Century

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

Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.

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.