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Radical Voices of Resistance: Gender, Race & US Social Movements

Course #: AMST 394L, Class #: 3032, Section #: 01

Description

This class explores activist engagements in several interrelated social movements in the U.S. throughout the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Through reading and discussion of primary documents, biography, and historical research, we analyze the motivations and strategies of women activists in tension with gendered and racialized expectations and practices in historical context.

Prerequisites

a minimum of 30 credits or Permission of Instructor

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