F17 - RELG025.01 - Blk Wmn,Spirituality, Religion
Weekly outline
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In lieu of an exam, your final project for this class involves the creation of a crowd-sourced syllabus centered on Black women, spirituality, and religion. The syllabus will be produced collaboratively and must be comprehensive and methodologically or topically focused. For next week you should come up with at least three areas or subjects and begin to form groups for discussion, organizing, and gathering your research materials and sources. Post your three potential syllabus topics here in the blog before our next class.
Also before Monday read this article on the history and production of these forms of scholar-activism. Note that contrary to what you may have learned, as early as the 1800s black women in the US have been actively engaged in this kind of collective public academic-political work. Part of the value of this work, I would argue, is to dispel false assumptions concerning black women's intellectual commitments and foster a renewed critical consciousness that can bring about well-being through educational empowerment. So please choose a topic that has some interest and meaning for you.