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"Research is formalized curiosity." zora neale hurston

"REAL BAD NEWS" | SAMPLE SOURCES

Below are sample sources for a class in Black Women's Studies. Syllabus links can be edited for any course topic and theme. For a 16-week semester, students explore one source type per week. Combining assigned reading with sources students locate on their own synthesizes course topic with students' own intellectual interest. Cheers!

REPORT / DATABASE

UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights


GSU Library Research Guide https://tilt.colostate.edu/syllabus-resources-and-policies/ 

LIVE SOURCE / INTERVIEW / VIDEO

From the Continent to the Americas: Foodways, Culture, and Traditions in the African American Family, ASALH Black History Month Panel https://youtu.be/32jJoZYHmxc

LAW / LEGAL JOURNAL

Kimberlé Crenshaw, “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color,” Stanford Law Review https://www.jstor.org/stable/1229039


BOOK

Bookshop

https://bookshop.org/contributors/stephanie-y-evans

BOOK REVIEW

The Evans Review https://theevansreview.net/


UNC Chapel Hill Writing Book Reviews

ARTICLE

"African American Women Scholars and International Research: Dr. Anna Julia Cooper’s Legacy of Study Abroad" Link


JSTOR Digital Library of Academic Articles https://www.jstor.org/action/showBasicSearch

ARCHIVE / ART / MUSEUM

Black Women's Archives

https://blackfeminisms.com/resources/archives/ 


HBCU Library Alliance https://hbcudigitallibrary.auctr.edu/

 Library of Congress Databases https://eresources.loc.gov/ 

AGENCY / ORGANIZATION

Black Women's Health Imperative https://bwhi.org/

DISSERTATION

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses https://www.proquest.com/

DOCUMENTARY / MOVIE

NYU: Locating Documentary Films https://guides.nyu.edu/DocumentaryFilm/locating-films


Black Film Archive https://blackfilmarchive.com/


NEWSPAPER

ProQuest Black Historical Newspapers Link Here

NOVEL / MEMOIR / SHORT STORY

Africana Memoirs  http://www.africanamemoirs.net/

ENCYCLOPEDIA / BIBLIOGRAPHY

ABWH Booklist   

https://abwh.org/membership

WEBSITE / BLOG / SOCIAL MEDIA

Association of Black Women Historians https://abwh.org/

SONG / POEM

Black Women's Music Database https://blackwomensmusicdatabase.net/ 

"Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein." — Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road

an intellectual history of Black women's studies

BWST 101 Essential Readings, 1850-2000

Framed by two eras (1850-1983 and 1983-2000), this class in intellectual history traces academic origins of race and gender studies back to 1850, when abolitionist Lucy Stanton at Oberlin College earned what is recognized as the first four-year degree granted to a Black woman.  Stanton’s commencement speech titled, “A Plea for the Oppressed,” is archived as a forbearer to other social justice education primary sources available at institutions like Howard University, Spelman College, Princeton University, Emory University, and University of Massachusetts-Amherst. 


This inclusive survey course connects scholar-activists from Anna Julia Cooper, Mary McLeod Bethune, Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, and Pauli Murray to Toni Cade Bambara, Barbara Smith, Angela Davis, Patricia Hill Collins, and Kimberlé Crenshaw in ways that center the process of scholarly community building and creative resistance.   


This foundational readings class contextualizes the 1970s growth in race & gender college course development and also complements the "Introduction to Black Women's Studies" and "Black Feminist Thought" courses where students explore foci like transgender and nonbinary studies, Afropessimism, Black socialism & communism, Diaspora, Afrofuturism, and other essential developments alluded to but not fully covered in these initial publications. 


Essentially, BWST 101 shows how the field developed in universities and illuminates the gaps which new scholarship must fill.     

SYLLBAUS CONSTRUCTION RESOURCES

American Association of University Professors (AAUP)

American Association of University Professors (AAUP)

American Association of University Professors (AAUP)

Teaching, Syllabi, and 

Academic Freedom

https://www.aaup.org/i-need-help/workplace-issues/contours-academic-freedom

Georgia State University

American Association of University Professors (AAUP)

American Association of University Professors (AAUP)

Constructing a Syllabus Website https://cetl.gsu.edu/services/instructional-support/constructing-a-syllabus/

Brown University

American Association of University Professors (AAUP)

Indiana University

Syllabus Construction Handbook

https://www.brown.edu/sheridan/sites/sheridan/files/docs/constructing-a-syllabus.pdf

Indiana University

Washington University, St. Louis

Indiana University

Syllabus Construction Website

 https://citl.indiana.edu/teaching-resources/course-design/syllabus-construction/index.html 

Washington University, St. Louis

Washington University, St. Louis

Washington University, St. Louis

Constructing a Syllabus - Checklist

https://ctl.wustl.edu/resources/constructing-a-syllabus/

Colorado State University

Washington University, St. Louis

Washington University, St. Louis

Syllabus Resources

https://tilt.colostate.edu/syllabus-resources-and-policies/


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