This course is designed to provide students with an introduction to the field of Black Women’s Biography. Over the course of the semester, we will grapple the nuances and challenges of how to write about Black women as thinkers, cultural workers, and mothers through biographies for both scholarly and general audiences. Readings, discussions, and assignments will consider the process, challenges, and major trends of how scholars attempted to explore the thoughts, experiences, and interior lives of a range of Black women across time, space, political ideologies, and conceptions of race.
Image: Rev. Brenda Tapia with her mother Dovie Howard and father James Howard.
- Teacher: Hilary Green