ANTH220 - Rereading Gendered Agency: Black Women's Experience of Slavery

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Academic Year 2002/2003

Rereading Gendered Agency: Black Women's Experience of Slavery
ANTH 220 SP

Crosslistings:
AFAM 220

Slavery systematically influenced both the production and reproduction of race, class and gendered identities. Black women's individual and collective response to this institution and its attempts at dehumanization and destruction highlights the impact of gender, race/color and class on the making of different yet complex patterns of resistance. This course uses a variety of research techniques and analytical approaches to investigate gendered agency. The aim is to "reread" black women's experiences of enslavement and their conscious struggle to carve out identities and a sense of personhood to allow for exploration of gender specific responses to the cultural dynamics of power.

MAJOR READINGS

COLLECTED BLACK WOMEN'S NARRATIVES. 1988. New York: Oxford University Press
Anna Julia Cooper. 1988 (1892). A VOICE FROM THE SOUTH. New York: Oxford University Press.
David B. Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine. 1996. MORE THAN CHATTEL: BLACK WOMEN AND SLAVERY IN THE AMERICAS. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
1988 ( ). SYLVIA DUBOIS, A BIOGRAPHY OF A FEMALE SLAV WHO WHIPT HER MISTRES AND GAND HER FREEDOM. New York: Oxford University Press.
Elizabeth Keckley. 1988. (1868). BEHIND THE SCENES OR THIRY YEARS AS A SLAVE AND FOUR YEARS IN THE WHITE HOUSE. New York: Oxford University Press.

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Class presentations, short papers, research projects.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Students must attend first class.

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture/Discussion

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS ANTH Grading Mode: Graded

Prerequisites: NONE

SECTION 01

Instructor(s): Ulysse,Gina

Times: .M..... 01:10PM-04:00PM; Location: FISK115

Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 25)

SR. major: 7 Jr. major: 7

SR. non-major: Jr. non-major: 3 SO: 8 FR: X

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Last Updated on MAR-18-2003