African American Women’s History

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 Paper:

Write a five-six page analysis of African American feminism as exemplified or reflected in an African American woman, or group of women, introduced in a minimal way within the course textbook. 

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Final Analytic Paper Submission

Your paper should have the following elements to meet program goals for this course:

Understand the construction of gender and its intersection with race, sex, and class to create an oppressive gender system.

Use the analytical frameworks generated by women’s studies scholarship to restore women’s contributions to the historical record.

I. Choose a woman, or group of women, from the textbook.

1. Identify Structure

Identify where the rules are coming from. Where would people look to find out what they are supposed to do? To find out what is possible?

How is gender constructed within this culture?

What are the prescriptive elements that influence women’s lives?

Are they learning boundaries in church, society, school, etc.?

What kind of cultural messages are they getting in the time and place in which they live?

Under what gender system do African American women live? Time, location, culture? (Explain the ways in which individual(s) worked within or without the structure). How does a woman come up with ways to operate within this structure and accomplish whatever it is she/they wish to accomplish goals (political, economic, social, community)?

2. Intersectionality

How does gender intersect with race, sex and class within this milieu? What are the messages about race and sex? Class? Ethnicity?

What other factors are at work within the culture that shaped this woman’s life?

What makes these elements oppressive to women? Race, class, sex?

(Other elements may include age, ability/disability, religion, etc.).

How does all this create an oppressive gender system? How does all of this intersect within the life of this woman to create an oppressive gender system?

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 Project:

II. Use the analytical frameworks generated by women’s studies scholarship to restore women’s contributions to the historical record.

Amending the Historical Record

In the final part of this assignment, after the research and writing of your paper, find a way to use the methods of analysis you’ve been exploring, and the work of other feminist scholars and determine how you can restore women to the historical record.

Possible ways to do this include (but are not limited to):

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    • Blog: create a women’s history themed blog: tumblr, wordpress, blogger, weebly, edublogs, pinterest
    • Wikipedia page: Create from scratch, or make a substantial modification/addition to an existing article. Include proper source citations.
    • Letter to the Editor: Write to a newspaper or magazine. Provide a detailed request to add content about women’s history.
    • Organize a Campus event that promotes women’s history awareness. (Use your existing campus club affiliation, or join/start a club or group.)
    • Submit a women’s history article for the HCC Times campus newspaper.
    • Submit an women’s history essay to an Undergraduate humanities journal article, such as Proto or another undergraduate journal
    • Submit a women’s history themed piece (art, poetry or prose) to the HCC Muse
    • Record a YouTube video on a women’s history topic
    • Write and present a 5-10 minute talk on women’s history to an elementary (or middle school) class. Include a handout for children to take home.

All of the above options require your project submission several days after your final research paper is due. See syllabus for exact due dates.

In the research paper, make sure you reflect on your project in a paragraph which describes the act and any thoughts you may have on the experience.

Electronic copies of the project will be submitted separately: Final Project Submission

In the case of visual projects, sent images or links to videos.

 

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Paper Rubric:

  • Did you identify the structure of oppression for the woman’s life?
  • Did you identify how she escaped or opened doors for wider possibilities?
  • Did you find a way to restore to historical record?

Program goals

Exceeds goal (4)

Meets goal (3)

Minimally meets goal (2)

Does not meet goal (1)

Understand the construction of gender and its intersection with race, sex, and class to create an oppressive gender system.

In a sophisticated analysis defines gender structures and identities how gender intersects with race, sex, and class to create an oppressive gender system that limits possibilities.

Defines gender structures and their intersections with race, sex, and class to create an oppressive gender system.

Identifies some structural elements and links gender with race, sex, or class.

Fails to analyze either the construction of gender or its intersection with race, sex, and class.

Use the analytical frameworks generated by women’s studies scholarship to restore women’s contributions to the historical record.

Uses the analytical frameworks generated by women’s studies scholarship to add or expand in a substantial way women’s contributions.

Uses the analytical frameworks generated to women’s studies scholarship to amend the contributions of a woman.

Uses some insights from women’s studies scholarship and minimally amends the historical record to reflect the contributions of a woman or group of women.

 

Fails to use the analytical frameworks and fails to satisfactorily restore the contributions of women to the historical record.

 

Paper Structural Requirements:

5-6 pages of text (text page count). Bibliography & cover sheet are additional.

1 page cover sheet1 page bibliography12pt Times New RomanDouble spacedOriginal title (choose a unique title for your paper)Content pages numberedNo headers or footersChicago/Turabian formatIn-text citations & Bibliography must be in Chicago/Turabian format

Must have 3-5 sources: 

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      • at least 2 sources must be hardcopy/print sources (scholarly books or journal articles)
      • no more than 2 websites may be used as sources (must be scholarly websites, such as universities .edu, or credible organizations .org). No blogs, etc.

Offer a clear thesis and substantial evidence that supports all claims

Limit quote usage to brief excerpts of two lines or less, and be correctly cited.

Carefully proofread/edited for grammatical errors

 

 

 

 

 

REQUIRED TEXT BOOKS

1)    Daina Ramey Berry & Kali Nicole Gross, A Black Women’s History of the United States, Boston: Beacon Press, 2020.  ISBN 9780807033555 (hardcover) or ISBN 9780807033562 (ebook).  (This book is abbreviated within this course as: BG or Berry/Gross.)

2)    Gerda Lerner, ed., Black Women in White America: A Documentary History, New York: Vintage Books, 1992. ISBN 0679743146.  (This book is abbreviated within this course as: L or Lerner.)

Recommended (optional, not required):

1) Clark Hine, Wilma King, and Linda Reed, eds., “We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible”: A Reader in Black Women’s History, New York: Carlson Publishing, 1995.  ISBN 0926019813. 

 

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