Motherhood in Black and White

This seminar focuses on the experience and ideology of American motherhood with respect to the different experiences of Black and white mothers from the slave era to the present.. Texts include fiction, film, history, feminist and psychoanalytic theory, e.g. "Uncle Tom's Cabin,'' "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl," "Imitation of Life," and "The Reproduction of Mothering." This seminar will be conducted online in the Fall of 2020 with both synchronous and asynchronous elements. The current syllabus is available for reference and many of the readings will remain the same, but the work will be re-organized before the semester begins and an updated syllabus posted then. Enrollment limited to 20.