[资料]Ses# 6 summary Dr. Andrea Walsh.pdf

SP 401 Fall 2010 Class #6

Reminder: Oral Presentation Date Preferences are due over email by Wed. 9/29 (see
handouts for details).

1. Toward A Multiracial Women’s History/Women’s and Gender Studies: Decentering
the Suffrage Narrative in American Women's History
a. African-American Women's Activism Post-Emancipation;
A Multi-Issue Agenda: Gender-Conscious and Women’s Rights Activism
b. Post-emancipation realities for freedwomen: domestic and agricultural labor
c. The growth of the African-American middle class and the creation of black
institutions (educational, economic, political, medical, cultural)
d. Post-Reconstruction and racist backlash
e. The black women's club movement: Goals of racial equality,
female empowerment and suffrage
f. Ida B. Wells (1862-1931): Exemplar of Post-Emancipation black female activism

2. Documentary Film Screening:
Ida B. Wells: Passion for Justice (William Greaves, 1989)

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Homework: Film Discussion Questions: Answer #2 and #3 (a few paragraphs each)
for Wed. 9/29. (We’ll also discuss #1, but it’s not necessary to write about it.)

1. Most contemporary documentaries about women adopt one of two narrative styles: (a)
avoiding voice-over narration; (b) choosing a woman or women for voice-over narration.
What is the effect of