AF AMER M141African American Women's History
African American Studies · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
(Same as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies M141.) Historical examination of black women’s experiences in U.S. from antebellum era to present. By situating black women’s experiences within major historical transitions in American history, exploration of key themes, including gender formation, sexuality, labor and class, collective action, gender and sexual violence, reproduction, and role of law. How have intersecting forms of oppression impacted black women’s historical lives? How is difference constructed through interrelated and overlapping ideologies of race and gender? How do historians uncover black women’s historical lives and what are challenges to such discoveries? Examination of black women’s individual and collective struggles for freedom from racism, sexism, and heteropatriarchy, as well as black women’s participation in and challenge to social movements, including suffrage, women’s liberation, civil rights, and black power. Investigation of black women’s intellectual history, including their cultural productions.
Letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.