AMS 275-01 - Topics in American Culture: American Black Womein in the US

4 credits (Fall)

The course is intended to document the historical, cultural and political contexts, complex identity pattern of self-sufficiency and autonomy, and the feminist activism of Black women as Americans. The course will require intensive readings about their “habits of survivals”, inter-personal spaces, and the social reality through of their lives found in literature, history, social policy, religion, and political movements. Through the use of autobiography, biography, poetry, film, music, photography, clothing, “hair politics”, magazines and other tenants of popular culture, we will examine Black Women’s American story for its challenges and resiliencies.

Prerequisite: AMS 130 and second-year standing. American Studies Concentrators have first priority.
Note: +2 option available.
Instructor: Scott