Week One

40 Years Later… with “A Black Feminist Reading of the Movement for Black Lives”

1. First, take a close look at this syllabus.  Make sure that this is the class that you want to take.
2. Second, go back and (re)read the 1977 Combahee River Collective Statement. Spend some time online and on your media networks to see how people are contextualizing the 40-year anniversary.  Who is remembering?  How and why?
3. Third, listen to Barbara Ransby’s March 20, 2017 talk at the Barnard Center for Research on Women called “A Black Feminist Reading of the Movement for Black Lives: Resistance and the U.S. Left Reimagined.”  This class coincides with the 40-year anniversary of the statement and is the theme of the 2017 National Women’s Studies Association Conference presided by Barbara Ransby.  Notice how she makes the Movement for Black Lives a Black Feminist Tradition AND Agenda!
4. As we travel back with the Combahee River Collective, let’s take it all the way back with Audre Lorde.  Read BOTH “The Uses of Anger” and “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action.”

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“A Black Feminist Reading of the Movement for Black Lives: Resistance and the U.S. Left Reimagined” by Barbara Ransby

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