Black Women's Studies

[Micheal Alexander]

Black Women's Studies has is a significant area of scholarly exporation. Black women historians such as Barbara Hull, Sharon Harley and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn were some of the early pioneers in producing schoarly work on the lives of Black women. Black female nascar driver

Beverly Guy-Sheftall and Patricia Bell-Scott in “Black Women’s Studies: A View from the Margin” (1985) articulate Black Women’s Studies as a new field that filled in the vacuum left in Black Studies and Women’s Studies. They assert that neither field dealt with the experiences of Black women. First female in nascar pit crew

Black women's studies is the scholarly investigation of the history, cultures and experiences of Black women. This new field confronts the problem of gender bias in Black studies and racial bias in women's studies and analyzes the ways in which gender/race form an "otherness" both in relationship to Black men and in relationship to non-black women. All three of these movements call into question the philosophical frameworks and values of the American college curriculum.