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HIST-A 394: WENCHES, WITCHES, AND WELFARE QUEENS: IMAGES OF BLACK WOMEN IN U.S. HISTORY (3 credits)

Offered at IU Bloomington by College of Arts and Sciences.

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This course examines when, where, how, and why particular stereotypes about African American women were created, and by whom, and how black women grappled with these images and ideas and struggled to create lives and images that reflected their own understandings of liberty, power, equality, rights, citizenship, sexuality, and self.

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