AAS 4471 - Black Women and Work

Effective Date 10/09/2017
This advanced seminar explores selected topics in the history of black women and work (broadly defined) in the United States. Using gender, race, and class as essential categories of analysis, this course is designed to help students better understand the myriad contributions working class black women have made to American history–across time and space–as slaves, convict laborers, domestic servants, sex workers, labor activists, and more.

Credits: 3