Black Women Are Foundational for Black Studies

This informational blog focuses on resources on Black Women and Black Studies.

NOTE: This informational blog is compiled by and reprinted with the permission of Abdul Akalimat, PhD

Wiki: Black Feminism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_feminism

AAUW: Women of Color in Higher Ed
https://www.aauw.org/resources/article/fast-facts-woc-higher-ed/

Black Women’s Studies Association
https://www.blackwomensstudies.com/

Association of Black Women Historians
https://www.facebook.com/abwhtruth/

Spelman: Comparative Women’s Studies
https://www.spelman.edu/academics/majors-and-programs/comparative-womens-studies

Radcliffe: African American Women
https://guides.library.harvard.edu/c.php?g=311090&p=2081725

Radcliffe: Black Women Oral History Project
https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library/collections/black-women-oral-history-project

Simmons: Department of Critical Race, Gender, and Cultural Studies
https://www.simmons.edu/academics/colleges-schools-departments/schools-departments/critical-race-gender-cultural-studies

Illinois-Urbana: Certificate in Black Women and Gender Studies
https://afro.illinois.edu/academics/undergraduate-program/certificate-black-women-and-gender-studies

Illinois-Chicago: Black Queer and Feminist Studies
https://blst.uic.edu/academics/courses-2/major-minor-themes/black-queer-feminist-studies/

Maryland: Black Women’s Studies Minor
https://wgss.umd.edu/academic-programs/undergraduate/black-womens-studies-minor

Clark Atlanta: The Department of African American Studies, Africana Women’s Studies and History
https://www.cau.edu/school-of-arts-and-sciences/aawh/index.html

Brown: Black Feminist Theory Project
https://www.brown.edu/research/pembroke-center/black-feminist-theory-project

Michigan: Black Feminist Health Studies
https://irwg.umich.edu/content/black-feminist-health-studies

Boston: Black Women’s Health Study
https://www.bu.edu/bwhs/

Georgetown: Office of Minority Health & Health Disparities Research
https://minorityhealthdisparities.georgetown.edu/#

San Jose State: Black Women’s Studies Minor
https://catalog.sjsu.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=1&poid=83

Alabama: Department of Gender and Race Studies
https://catalog.ua.edu/undergraduate/arts-sciences/gender-race-studies/

Vanderbilt: Intersectional Study of Black Women and Girls in Society
https://www.vanderbilt.edu/ibwgs/

Texas Woman’s: Multicultural Women’s and Gender Studies
https://twu.edu/ws/

Signs: Common Grounds and Crossroads: Race, Ethnicity,and Class in Women’s Lives
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/signs/1989/14/4

PHILLIS: The Journal for Research on African American Women
https://www.deltafoundation.net/the-center/phillis-a-scholarly-journal-published-by-dref

MIT: A History of Black Feminism
http://www.mit.edu/~thistle/v9/9.01/6blackf.html

Black British Women Writers Scholars
https://www.vub.be/TALK/BBWW/index.php?s=researchers

Oxford Afro Studies Center: Black Queer Feminism
https://oxfordaasc.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195301731.001.0001/acref-9780195301731-e-78530

Arizona: Transgender Studies Quarterly: The Issue of Blackness
https://read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/issue/4/2

Audre Lorde Project
https://alp.org/

AfroMarxist: Black Women’s Voices
Claudia Jones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUMTOwrzgzs
Esther Cooper Jackson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_Hwtv7ZM54
Charlotta Spears Bass: https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/charlotta-spears-bass-first-black-woman-vp-nominee-epkd15/15441/
Angela Davis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzQkVfO9ToQ
Linda Burnham: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iHWh-gR1gU
Elaine Brown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mijk0E866IY
Lorraine Hansberry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mijk0E866IY
Assata Shakur: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW0dDdn_Pig&list=PLjj3W4i3WnZ7OIU0UMndR-uDBiAr8Codp
Queen Mother Moore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw2dxfeItLY&list=PLjj3W4i3WnZ4v1WJ7l6_5vNGG7ILZHviw
Charlene Mitchell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6iZrD4pRpI

Charles Alexander Prescott’s Black History Month Library
Black Women Texts:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1XrcBXvrLH35IrbKoLle_nkF0gXcsYVRv

Goldman Sachs Pledge of $10 billion for the advancement of Black women
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/10/goldman-sachs-pledges-10-billion-launches-new-initiative-supporting-black-women.html

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