Course curriculum

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    Course Documents
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    Week 1- Queen Amanireinas of Kush and Diyha al-Kahina
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    Week 2 - The Kahina/ Makeda Queen of Sheeba/ Lalla Fatma N'Soumer
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    Week 3- Queen Nzingha/ Kimpa Vita/ Angelique
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    Week 4- Nanny of the Maroons/ Cécile Fatiman/ Carlota
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    Powerpoints
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    Week 5- Maria Stewart/Harriet Tubman
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    Week 6- Queen Ranavalona/ Empress Taytu
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    Week 7- Yaa Asantewaa/ Nehanda/Meketilili
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    Week 8- Black Women's Club Movement/ Ogu Umunwanyi Igbo Women's War
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    Week 9- Amy Ashwood Garvey/ Amy Jacques Garvey
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    Week 10- Claudia Jones/Ella Baker
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    Week 11- Women in the Black Power and Independence Movements
  • Sheroes Pre-Course Assessment Part 1 from Black-Women-in-Antiquity-Ivan-Van-Sertima-2 Part 2 from Black-Women-in-Antiquity-Ivan-Van-Sertima-3 End Matter from Pages from Black-Women-in-Antiquity-Ivan-Van-Sertima-3 African Women and Pan Africanism UNESCO Women in Africa History Learning Tool
  • Link to Recording of Session 1-October 10, 2020 Link to the recording of Session 1 (October 2, 2021) Link to Recording Session 1- October 8, 2022 Links to Sudanese Women's Stories Fundamental Reading- Ancient_Egyptian_Queens_Merneith Fundamental Reading- Merneith - Oxford Reference Fundamental Reading- Murphy on Cushite Queens Fundamental Reading- Hilliard on Hatshepsut Fundamental Reading- Lohwasser on Queenship in Kush Week 1 Discussion Optional Advanced Reading- Davies on Hatshepsut and Thutmoses Optional Advanced Reading- Alameen on Queenship in Egypt 2018 Creasman on Hatshepsut and Punt 2014 Women_at_a_Crossroads_Sudanes Ibrahim on the SWU Sudanese women’s movement, achievements and challenges The Woman Question in the Thinking of an African Radical
  • Link to Recording of Session 2-October 17, 2020 Link to Recording of Session 2- October 9, 2021 Link to Recording of Session 2- October 22, 2022 Link to Recording of Session 2- October 14, 2023 Link to Recording of Introduction to Session 2- October 14, 2023 Links to Articles on Algeria Dahia_al-Kahina Fundamental Reading- Oxford AASC_ Kahina Fundamental Readings- Dahia_al-Kahina Fundamental Reading- The Origins of Amazigh Women’s Power in North Africa Fundamental Reading- The Problem of Gudit Tin Hinan - Oxford Reference Fundamental Reading- Monges on Sheba Fundamental Reading- Women in the Quran Chapter 6 Week 2 Discussion Optional Advanced Reading- Belcher on Sheba Optional Advanced Reading- How The Queen of Sheba Became a Queen Notes Optional Advanced Reading- A Sixth Century Kebra Nagast Optional Advanced Reading- WEITZMAN on Sheba Optional Advanced Reading- Beeston on Sabean Origins Andersen 2000 on Godit clio-298 societies-08-00126-v2 acref-9780195301731-e-49649 Hear me roar_ The women behind Algeria's revolution of smiles - New African Magazine Algerias_iconic_Milk_Bar_bomber Women in Pre Colonial Algeria Restaging_Terror_in_the_Algeri
  • Link to Recording of Session 3- October 24, 2020 Link to Recording of Session 3- October 29, 2022 Link to Recording of Session 3- October 21, 2023 Fundamental Reading- queen nzinga- she never stopped fighting Fundamental Reading- Njinga Mbandi - Oxford Reference Fundamental Reading- Thornton on Nzinga Fundamental Listening- Conversation with Afua Cooper on Angelique Fundamental Reading- Rouillard Complicit Victims Optional Advanced Reading- Miller on Nzinga ThorntonJohnK_1998_ALandInTurmoil_TheKongoleseSaintAnth Beatrice_of_the_Kongo_16861706 Week 3 Discussion saint_anthony_arrives saint_and_the_kings saint_anthony_in_sin_and_glory Did Kongolese Catholicism Lead to Slave Revolutions_ _ JSTOR Daily Remembering Mary, Shaping Revolt- Reconsidering the Stono Rebellion Useful Websites On Tereza de Benguela Rodrigues_Deolinda_in_Oxford_Encyclopedi Deolinda_Rodrigues,_da_Família Motherhood as Activism in the Angolan People's War, 1961-1975
  • Link to Recording of Session 4-October 31, 2020 Link to Recording of Session 4- October 30, 2021 Link to Recording of Session 4- November 5, 2022 Link to Recording of Session 4- October 28, 2023 A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica, 1655- 1844 Fundamental Reading- Sharpe on Nanny Fundamental Reading- The Haiti of Cecile Fatiman Fundamental Reading- Article on Nanny Fundamental Reading- Oxford AASC_ Fatiman, Cécile URL_ Fundamental Reading- Lundy on Fatiman Week 4 Discussion Optional Advanced Reading- Agorsah on Nanny Optional Advanced Reading- Race and Revolution at Bwa Kayiman Optional Advanced Reading- GEGGUS on Bois Caman Optional Advanced Reading- Akan Religious Beliefs 1 Optional Advanced Reading- Akan Religious Beliefs 2 Optional Advanced Reading- Akan Religious Beliefs 3 Optional Advanced Reading- Akan Religious Beliefs 4 Optional Advanced Reading- Akan Rebellion in New York Avenging Carlota in Africa Angola and the memory of Cuban slavery What Revolution Looks Like Cuba 9780822372967-005 Maroons and castas in Colombia’s Caribbean regions Territorial Intimacy as a Freedom Strategy: The Case of María de Los Santos and Her Bonga Landers-FOUNDINGMOTHERSFEMALE-2013
  • Sheroes Lectures Fall 2019
  • Link to Recording of Session 5/6 (Haiti, Tubman, and Yaa Asantewaa)- November 4 and 11, 2023 Link to Recording of Session 5- November 7th 2020 Link to Recording of Session 5- November 6th 2021 Link to the Recording of Session 5- November 12, 2022 Fundamental Reading- Ghana Welcomes Tubman Family Members _ NPR Fundamental Reading- Chism on Tubman as Spy Fundamental Reading- Maria Stewart and Sympathetic Violence Fundamental Reading- Smith Tucker 2013 Fundamental Reading- Maria Stewart's Address Delivered at the African Masonic Hall, 1833 Optional Advanced Reading- Maria Stewart Lecture 1832 Optional Advanced Reading- General Tubman Optional Advanced Reading- CooperValerieC_2011_Chapter4_WordLikeFireMariaStew
  • Link to Recording of Session 6- November 18, 2023 Link to the Recording of Session 6- November 19, 2022 Link to Recording of Session 6- November 14, 2020 Fundamental Reading- Ranavalona I, Queen - Oxford Reference Fundamental Reading- Ranavalona and Queen Victoria Fundamental Reading- Berg on Ranavalona Fun & Optional Advanced Reading- Tatyu UNESCO (Comic) Fundamental Reading- Ekechi on Taytu Fundamental Reading- The Lessons and Legacy of Adwa- Forging Our Future in Struggle Fundamental Reading- Taytu Betul - Oxford Reference Fundamental Reading- Women and Warfare in Ethiopia p. 16-44 Informative Website on Itege Taytu
  • Link to Recording of Session 7- November 20, 2021 Link to the Recording of Session 7- November 21, 2020 Fundamental Reading- Mekatilili - Oxford Reference Fundamental Reading- Kuba Women_Nationalists_in_Nineteen Fundamental Reading- Aidoo on Asantewaa Fundamental Reading- On Nehanda and her trial Fundamental Reading- Mazama on Nehanda Optional Advanced Reading- Mekatilili National Hero Optional Advanced Reading- McCaskie on Asantwaa Optional Advanced Reading- CharumbiraRuram_2015_1FarFromTheTreeApprop_ImaginingANationHisto Optional Advanced Reading- Mekatilili_ local heroine The Role of Nana Yaa Asantewaa in the 1900 Asante War of Resistance YAA ASANTEWAA’S WAR OF INDEPENDENCE- HONORING AND RATIFYING AN HISTORIC PLEDGE THE YAA ASANTEWAA CENTENARY AND THE POLITICS OF HISTORY Yaa Asantewaa in the Yaa Asantewaa War of 1900 When Yaa Asantewaa Meets Deborah afar_a_00183 Interesting Short Animated Website and Comic on Mekatilili fc-memorialisation-Celia_Neil_Mekatilili-sept2011
  • Link to the Recording of Session 8- November 28, 2020 (Covers information found in Weeks 10 and 11) Fundamental Reading- Historical Context of Black Women's Club Movement Fundamental Reading- Women's War of 1929 Optional Advanced Reading- Igbo Women and Political Participation in Nigeria Optional Advanced Reading- Shaving of a woman s head Isinmo and the Igbo women s war on forced marriages in Southern Nigeria 1900 1936 Shaw on Black Club Women
  • Recording of Session on Amy Ashwood Garvey and Amy Jacques Garvey (December 12, 2020) Fundamental Reading- Oxford AASC_ Garvey, Amy Ashwood URL_ Fundamental Reading- Tony Martin on Amy Ashwood Fundamental Reading- Taylor on AJG Fundamental Reading- Phillips on AJ Garvey Optional Advanced Reading- WOMEN IN THE GARVEY MOVEMENT Optional Advanced Reading (Book)- The Veiled Garvey by Tony Martin Optional Advanced Reading- Escape_from_New_York_The_New_Negro_Renaissance_bey..._----_(3._An_International_African_Opinion_Amy_Ashwood_Garvey_and_C._L._R._Ja...)
  • Fundamental Reading- Jones 2013 on Claudia Jones Fundamental Reading- Howard on Jones 2013 Fundamental Reading- North_Carolina_Women_Their_Lives_and_Times_----_(Ella_Josephine_Baker_“I_Never_Worked_for_an_Organization_but_for_a_Cau...) Fundamental Reading- Jones from Left of Marx Chapter 1 Fundamental Reading- Jones from Left of Marx Chapter 5 Optional Advanced Reading- Sisters_In_the_Struggle_African-American_Women_In_..._----_(Sisters_in_the_Struggle)
  • Link to Recording of this Session- (December 5, 2020) Link to Recording of this Session- (December 10, 2022) Fundamental Viewing- Anne Cools on Sir George Williams Rebellion Fundamental Reading- Assata Shakur The continuity of struggle Fundamental Reading- Assata To My People Fundamental Reading- Assata Fundamental Reading- Women in the Panthers Fundamental Reading- Black Power Montreal Fundamental Reading- Building a revolutionary constituency Mozambican refugees and the development of the FRELIMO proto state 1964 1968 Fundamental Reading- Girls_with_guns_Narrating_the Optional but Highly Recommended Reading- Assata an Autobiography Optional Advanced Reaading- Alameen-Shavers2017_Article_AnInterviewWithNormaMtume Optional Advanced Reading- The black liberation army and the radical legacy of the black panther party