Discuss the impact and changes for black women during the Reconstruction Era. How did these women construct freedom?
You must use the Course materials and the Berry/Gross and Davis books only to answer these questions. Please cite the author’s last name and the page number. It must be a 500-1000 word essay.
Source materials that can be used
Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower
—, Parable of the Talents
Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography
Melissa Harris-Perry, Sister Citizen: Shame., Stereotypes, and Black Women in America
bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
—, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
—, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
—, Killing Rage: Ending Racism
—, Where We Stand: Class Matters
—, Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Sonia Sanchez, Shake Loose My Skin
Elaine Brown, A Taste of Power: A Black Woman’s Story
Issa Rae, Awkward (HBO)
The Boondocks, “The Block is Hot,” season 1, episode 14
—, “Attack of the Kung-Fu Killer Wolf Bitch,” season 2, episode 6
—, “The Story of Catcher Freeman,” season 2, episode 12
ANY album by the “a capella” singing group “Sweet Honey in the Rock”
The Crunk Feminist Collective website
