Week 4

W 4 Feb 6-8  

T- Emilye Crosby “It wasn’t the Wild West“It wasn’t the Wild West”: Keeping Local Studies in Self-Defense Historiography and film, Robert F. Williams, Negroes With Guns.

 

R- Laurie Green_Challenging the Civil Rights Narrative: Women, Gender, and the ‘Politics of Protection’” and Danielle McGuire, “It was like all of us had been Raped” and Claudette Colvin.

Outline: Green, Challenging the Civil Rights Narrative

What is the argument of each section? Provide 2 examples.

Introduction

I. Women, Gender, and Leadership

II. Rethinking the Opposition Between National and Local

III. Race, Work, and the Household

IV. Racial Violence and the “Politics of Protection”

V. Expanding The Meaning Of Rights: Health, Hunger, and Poverty

Conclusion

Gender and Black Freedom Movement, From Forty Years Later