History 278 - Colloquium: A Decolonial U.S. Women’s History
Colq: Decolonial US Wom Hist
Fall
2024
01
4.00
Jennifer Mary Guglielmo
TU TH 1:20 PM - 2:35 PM
Smith College
HST-278-01-202501
Sabin-Reed 101
jgugliel@smith.edu
An introduction to U.S. women's history with Black, Indigenous, Mexican and Puerto Rican women at the center. This course is also guided by the cultural and theoretical work of women of color to decolonize knowledge, history and the world. Discussions include colonialism, emancipation from slavery, racial segregation and exclusion, industrial and neoliberal capitalism, imperialism, mass migration, labor, feminism, civil rights and a range of liberation movements in the 19th and 20th centuries. Emphasis on the oral tradition and working-class cultures. Enrollment limited to 18.