Black Women's Studies

Black Women's Studies has is a significant area of scholarly exporation. Black women historians such as Barbara Hull, Sharon Harley and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn were some of the early pioneers in producing schoarly work on the lives of Black women.

*Beverly Guy-Sheftall and Patricia Bell-Scott in “Black Women’s Studies: A View from the Margin” (1985) articulate Black Women’s Studies as a new field that filled in the vacuum left in Black Studies and Women’s Studies. They assert that neither field dealt with the experiences of Black women. They note:

Black women's studies is the scholarly investigation of the history, cultures and experiences of Black women. This new field confronts the problem of gender bias in Black studies and racial bias in women's studies and analyzes the ways in which gender/race form an "otherness" both in relationship to Black men and in relationship to non-black women. All three of these movements call into question the philosophical frameworks and values of the American college curriculum. (1985: 205)

*Black Women’s Studies: From Theory to Transformative Practice | Socialism & Democracy (sdonline.org)

NOTE--This informational blog is compiled by (with the exception of the introduction and photograph) and reprinted with permission from Abdul Akalimat, PhD

Professional Organizations Media Women's Colleges Academic Programs Degrees Courses

Professional Organizations

Black Women's Studies Association https://www.blackwomensstudies.com/

Association of Black Women Historians https://abwh.org/

Duke University Second Annual Black Feminist Theory Summer Institute https://gendersexualityfeminist.duke.edu/black-feminist-theory-summer-institute

University of Kentucky Annual Conference on Black Women https://www.as.uky.edu/28th-annual-black-womens-conference-excavating-lives-black-women

Media

NPR https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124775888

Journal of African American History https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.2307/1562475?journalCode=jaah

Socialism and Democracy https://sdonline.org/issue/55/black-women%E2%80%99s-studies-theory-transformative-practice

Phylon https://www.jstor.org/stable/3132615

Black Women, Gender & Families Journal https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/blacwomegendfami.1.1.0024 https://www.jstor.org/journal/blacwomegendfami

Women's Studies Quarterly https://www.proquest.com/openview/7ef692a5fd19a99a58b16130bcbee497/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1819853

Signs https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/651033?journalCode=signs

Women's Colleges

Spelman College Women's Research Resource Center https://www.spelman.edu/academics/majors-and-programs/comparative-womens-studies/womens-research-resource-center

Bennett College Africana Women's Studies https://www.facebook.com/AWSBennett/

Radcliffe College https://guides.library.harvard.edu/c.php?g=311090&p=2081725

Mount Holyoke Department of Africana Studies https://www.mtholyoke.edu/directory/departments-offices-centers/africana-studies

Smith College Africana Studies https://www.smith.edu/academics/africana-studies

Barnard College Department of Africana Studies https://africana.barnard.edu/

Academic Programs

Clark Atlanta University The Department of African American Studies, Africana Women’s Studies and History (AWH) https://www.cau.edu/school-of-arts-and-sciences/aawh/index.html

Ohio Wesleyan University Department of Africana,Gender, and Identity Studies https://www.owu.edu/academics/departments-programs/department-of-africana-gender-and-identity-studies/

University of Alabama Department of Gender and Race Studies https://catalog.ua.edu/undergraduate/arts-sciences/gender-race-studies/

University of Texas at San Antonio The Department of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality Studies https://catalog.utsa.edu/undergraduate/educationhumandevelopment/raceethnicitygendersexualitystudies/

University of Nevada Reno The Department of Gender, Race, and Identity https://www.unr.edu/gender-race-identity

Degrees

Northeastern University: Minor https://cssh.northeastern.edu/africana/program/black-feminist-studies-minor/

University of Maryland: Minor https://wgss.umd.edu/academic-programs/undergraduate/black-womens-studies-minor

San Jose State University: Minor https://catalog.sjsu.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=13&poid=7606&returnto=4963

University of Illinois: Certificate https://afro.illinois.edu/academics/undergraduate-program/certificate-black-women-and-gender-studies

Howard University: Graduate Certificate https://gs.howard.edu/academics/graduate-certificate-programs/womens-studies-graduate-certificate

Courses

Gonzaga University https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjuyN2v5d7_AhUok4kEHYzxB-8QFnoECBcQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.gonzaga.edu%2Facademics%2FHate-Studies%2Fdocs%2FSyallbi-PDFS%2Fblack-womens-studies.pdf&usg=AOvVaw3mKkbGT8YZeNAfs_ecrYvu&opi=89978449

Knox College https://www.knox.edu/academics/majors-and-minors/gender-and-womens-studies/courses

Case Western Reserve University https://artsci.case.edu/women/undergraduate/courses/

Pace University https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjcs8Xf6d7_AhUekYkEHUslBcoQFnoECA0QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gilderlehrman.org%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2FSYLLABUS%2520Black%2520Women%2527s%2520History%2520summer%25202021_0.pdf&usg=AOvVaw0p3O0ewB0Pl9NcwSKhDdxL&opi=89978449

University of Montana https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjcs8Xf6d7_AhUekYkEHUslBcoQFnoECBUQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fscholarworks.umt.edu%2Fcgi%2Fviewcontent.cgi%3Farticle%3D12122%26context%3Dsyllabi&usg=AOvVaw2JHWw0OANhFyuhHPehvH8e&opi=89978449

University of Texas at Austin https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjcs8Xf6d7_AhUekYkEHUslBcoQFnoECBQQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Futdirect.utexas.edu%2Fapps%2Fstudent%2Fcoursedocs%2Fnlogon%2Fdownload%2F10514769%2F&usg=AOvVaw0tzxlCZWVLsPVvL6TzR6CD&opi=89978449

CUNY https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjcs8Xf6d7_AhUekYkEHUslBcoQFnoECB0QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.citytech.cuny.edu%2Fafrican-studies%2Fdocs%2Fcourses%2FAFR2250.pdf&usg=AOvVaw0PdPObmZl70gshnJZG7SBV&opi=89978449

Wake Forest University https://issuu.com/mharrisperry/docs/public_syllabus__black_women_politics_and_media_sp

Amherst College https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwin3Yem6t7_AhVPkYkEHYUtD6E4ChAWegQIAxAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amherst.edu%2Facademiclife%2Fdepartments%2Fcourses%2F1112F%2FWAGS%2FWAGS-202-1112F%2Fsyllabus&usg=AOvVaw2h7X3oNlwkWeuIDoQsmzeE&opi=89978449