(Cross-listed with BL_STU 4420/7420)

Africana Womanism is an Undergraduate (4420) & Graduate (7000 Level) Course designed to broaden one's scope from a family-centered perspective relative to issues, recurring themes, trends in modern Africana women fiction, highlighting its applicability to our everyday lives worldwide. A study of the lives & selected works by 4 leading Africana women writers—Zora Neale Hurston (Their Eyes Were Watching God); Toni Morrison (Beloved); Terry McMillan (Disappearing Acts); and Angie Thomas (The Hate U Give)--will be enhanced by careful readings of 3 theory books—Africana Womanism: Reclaiming Ourselves, 5th Edition, Africana Womanist Literary Theory and Africana-Melanated Womanism: In It Together--as well as readings of scholarly selections by & about the various authors and their books. We will highlight the prioritization of Race, Class, Gender, a major cornerstone of this paradigm, committed to empowerment & equality of all.