WMST 600: Special Topics

WMST 600-002: Enterprising Black Women
(Fall 2018)

04:30 PM to 07:10 PM W

Nguyen Engineering Building 1103

Section Information for Fall 2018

This course explores the labor and lives of black women from the antebellum era to the twenty-first century. Through a study of black women’s entrepreneurial endeavors, it is designed to have students engage with the multiplicity of strategies black women developed and relied upon to live and survive in the United States. Students will take a historical and theoretical look at enterprising black women - entrepreneurs, number runners, sex workers, artists, domestics, and beauty salon owners – and how their economic production has always been inextricably intertwined with political agitation and social change. Focusing on the intersection between the economic, cultural and political realms, we will explore how black women “made a way out of no way.” We will utilize a variety of texts to explore enterprising black women’s labor, including historical documents, novels, documentaries, films, and visual culture.

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Study of selected topics central to contemporary women and gender studies. Topics vary but include representation and images, violence, public policy, international development, transmigration of labor, myth and ritual, history and politics of sexuality, psychoanalysis, and religion. Notes: May be repeated for credit when topic is different. May be repeated within the term.
Specialized Designation: Topic Varies
Registration Restrictions:

Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy, Graduate, Junior Plus, Non-Degree or Senior Plus.

Enrollment is limited to Graduate, Non-Degree or Undergraduate level students.

Students in a Non-Degree Undergraduate degree may not enroll.

Schedule Type: Lec/Sem #1, Lec/Sem #2, Lec/Sem #3, Lec/Sem #4, Lec/Sem #5, Lec/Sem #6, Lec/Sem #7, Lec/Sem #8, Lec/Sem #9, Sem/Lec #10, Sem/Lec #11, Sem/Lec #12, Sem/Lec #13, Sem/Lec #14, Sem/Lec #15, Sem/Lec #16, Sem/Lec #17, Sem/Lec #18, Seminar
Grading:
This course is graded on the Graduate Regular scale.

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