Black Woman Creating and Inventing Home

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The course will draw upon U.S. Census records of black households, lynching numbers, property and educational records of black females, black women's political and social organizing and family structures after slavery and the early 20th Century. With more than 90% of the black population living in the Cotton Belt it will be interesting to see the possibilities of enlarging one's agency in Border states as well as its isolation, elusiveness and lack of black tradition and social networks.