HISD21H3

Black Women in Canadian History

This D-level seminar course examines Black women’s history. It will investigate how a multi-play of gender, class, sexuality, and race has shaped the historical experiences of Black women in Canada and the African Diaspora. We will explore important concepts and themes such as Black feminist thought, Black feminist methodologies, and such key issues as transnationalism, migration, slavery and freedom, consciousness, Black women sexualities, community building, leadership, civil rights, and activism, work and labour, family, education, the Black press, and spirituality. The course is taught from a feminist and critical race perspective grounded in the concept of intersectionality.