Africana Women

Key terms:

Politics of respectability

Culture of dissemblance

Intersectionality

Sexual Scripts for young black girls

All readings are available in the “readings” folder with the Desire2Learn/Brightspace system.

READ:

Dionne P. Stephens and Layli D. Phillips, “Freaks, Gold Diggers, Divas, and Dykes: The Sociohistorical Development of Adolescent African American Women’s Sexual Scripts,” Sexuality and Culture, Winter 2003, pgs. 11 – 34.

Deirdre Cooper Owens, Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology; Ch. 3: “Contested Relations: Slavery, Sex, and Medicine” & “Afterword,” pgs. 73 – 88; 123 – 126.

Darlene Clark Hine, Hine Sight: Black Women and the Re-Construction of American History; Ch. “Rape and the Inner Lives of Black Women: Thoughts on the Culture of Dissemblance,” 37 – 38 (to “autobiographical writing”)

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880 – 1920; 185 – 191 (to “and brutish figures.”), 194 (begin with “Assimilationist Leanings”) – 196 (Ch. 7, “The Politics of Respectability”)

Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf, select excerpts on D2L.

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