Introduction
"When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid." - Audre Lorde
What is power?
What is woman?
What is a feminist?
Do any of these intertwine with each other? Are any of them related ?
Task
Research feminism and what it means.
Research African American feminism , what does it mean and what its role is.
Explain the roll of African American women and how it has changed over the years.
- Patricia Hill Collins "From Black Power to Hip Hop" https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.librarylink.uncc.edu/lib/uncc-ebooks/reader.action?docID=570537&query=
Research womanism.
Define womanism and explain the difference between womanism and feminism.
Choose from list of works of African American writers and evaluate how they address and determine African American feminism:
- Zora Neale Hurston " How it Feels To Be Colored Me"http://www.casa-arts.org/cms/lib/PA01925203/Centricity/Domain/50/Hurston%20How%20it%20Feels%20to%20Be%20Colored%20Me.pdf
- Lorde " Is Your hair Still Political ?" http://sites.middlebury.edu/africandiasporas/files/2015/10/POliticalHair.pdf
- Bell Hooks "Straightening our Hair "http://www.africanholocaust.net/news_ah/straightening-our-hair-by-bell-hooks.pdf
- Angelou " Phenomenal Woman" https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48985/phenomenal-woman
- Sojourner Truth "Ain't I A Woman?"https://www.nps.gov/articles/sojourner-truth.htm
Look at influential modern day African American woman and research them further and determine if they fir the definition of a feminist.
Conclusion
This project was created to define African American feminism and its role in America. We also took a look at womanism and African American feminists and how they show they're an advocate for feminism or how it is shown in their writing.
Teacher Page
The purpose of this web quest is to explore feminism that is catered and that is rooted in the African American community. Through this web quest, you will define feminism , power and how African American feminism started and what is it like today.