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AFR 140 Introduction to Africana Studies: WEEK 13: WOMEN’S INTELLECTUAL & POLITICAL IMPACT ACROSS THE DIASPORA

Theme and Readings

WOMEN’S INTELLECTUAL & POLITICAL IMPACT ACROSS THE DIASPORA

Week 13

  • Readings Team O presents 

  • Combahee river collective: A black feminist statement. (1979). Off Our Backs, 9(6), 6-8. (Login with your John Jay credentials)

    • Retrieved at https://login.ez.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/login?qurl=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25792966

  • (RT) Shakur, A. (1987). Assata : An autobiography. Zed Books.

    • Read Chapter 13 through the end!

      • ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Retrieved from the John Jay Library. Login with your John Jay login.

  • Media: Billie Holiday’s Strange Fruit (1939):  prokoman1. (2011, December 22). Billie Holiday-Strange fruit- HD [Video]. YouTube.

    • Retrieved from YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Web007rzSOI&feature=youtu.be 

      • This video may be used for educational purposes under the Fair Use Provision of the US Copyright Act

  • Media: Nina Simone’s Mississippi Godamn:   Aaron Overfield. (2013, February 26). Nina Simone: Mississippi goddam [Video].

    • Retrieved from YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ25-U3jNWM&feature=youtu.be

      • This video may be used for educational purposes under the Fair Use Provision of the US Copyright Act

  • ***Creative Writing #2***​​​​​​​