Identify, explain and analyze how black women participated in the public sphere 19th & 20th centuries. What challenges did black women? How did race, and gender intersect during these times?

Women in Hip Hop Chapter 2 Gwendolyn Pough Questions

1. Identify, explain and analyze how black women participated in the public sphere 19th & 20th centuries.

2. What challenges did black women? How did race, and gender intersect during these times?

3. Why is Harriet Jacobs” narrative essential to understand as a “rhetorical weapon of self defense? Consider the commentary of Joanne Braxton and others.

4. Why are the blues, and jazz important for black women in the context of civil right, activism, voice, narratives, etc.?

5. Define and explain Third Wave Black feminism to Hip Hop Feminism. Pough draws from the work of black feminists Valerie Smithbell hooks, Eisa Davis, and others what are their points? What did you learn.