Taught By:
Dyann Logwood
Associate Professor
Women's and Gender Studies
Eastern Michigan University
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Course Description:
Black Women: Politics and Racism is an examination of the African American experience from the female perspective. This course will acquaint students with the trends, issues and forces that have shaped that experience; considers the concepts of cultural adaptation, institutional development, and group self-definition; and surveys the contemporary status and condition of African American women. This course will also address the complexities of the black female experience, including its historical, political, policy, legal, economic sociological, psychological, religious and artistic dimensions.
This course is an introduction to the study and analysis of American politics as it relates to African American women. The course will explore the way in which political issues affect Black women differently than African American men, White men, and White women. Considerable attention will be given to the way we define the political realm as opposed to the non-political realm when discussing groups that have traditionally been marginalized or excluded from political life.
