Summer 2024 Women's Studies (Barnard) BC0009 section 001

The Politics of Remembrance: Black Women

Rest and Resistance

Call Number 00123
Day & Time
Location
TWR 9:30am-12:00pm
To be announced
Day & Time
Location
W 2:00pm-4:30pm
To be announced
Points 0
Grading Mode Pass/Fail
Approvals Required None
Instructor Sonya M Williams
Type SEMINAR
Course Description

This course will explore the vibrant history of activism and social organizing among African diasporic women in the Americas. It will begin by introducing essential concepts in Gender and African Diaspora history. Then, the course will discuss vignettes of African-descended women’s organizing during slavery in different areas of the Americas. Thus, it explores methods ranging from cultural and intellectual production to participation in legal culture, the cultural arts and dress, religious, spiritual, military warfare, and other forms of intersectional political activism. The course will also explore critical aspects of hemispheric American slavery and racial identity from a transnational, local, and regional perspective. After quickly reviewing the transatlantic slave trade, the course will reflect on how Black women intellectuals have organized to discuss the history and memory of slavery from the period through emancipation and the interwar period up until contemporary times. The second half of the course will reflect on how slavery has been remembered in the transatlantic world.

Web Site Vergil
Subterm 07/15-08/23 (S)
Department Pre-College Program (Barnard)
Enrollment 0 students (16 max) as of 3:05PM Monday, December 2, 2024
Subject Women's Studies (Barnard)
Number BC0009
Section 001
Division Barnard College
Section key 20242WOMP0009S001