AADS6302 · African and African Diaspora Studies

Seminar: Black Feminist Literature, Art, and Performance, 1970s-1990s

Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences

Seminar: Black Feminist Literature, Art, and Performance, 1970s-1990s In this course, we will explore Black feminism and its emergence as a cultural field from the 1970s through the 90s. Black feminism began in the 1970s as a movement that centered the lived experiences, political visions, and intellectual ideas of Black women who didnt see themselves as fully accounted for in mainstream civil rights and women's rights movements. The Black feminist movement birthed a generation of writers and artists who foregrounded Black womens storiesand audiences paid attention to their voices like never before. Authors and artists in this course may include The Combahee River Collective, Ntozake Shange, bell hooks, Toni Morrison, Faith Ringgold, Michele Wallace, Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, Kathleen Collins, Howardena Pindell, Julie Dash, Joan Morgan, and more. For English majors, the course satisfies the Seminar requirement and the Race, Blackness, and Language requirement.