Black Women's Lives - Theory and Practice Matter

CEU’s Center for Policy Studies & Department of Gender Studies

invite you to a seminar on

women in civil rights movements at the intersections of gender, race/ethnicity and class

Black Women's Lives
Theory and Practice Matter

Debra Schultz
City University of New York

This seminar places African American women at the center of U.S civil rights movement history, demonstrating how their contributions helped to redefine the nature of leadership for social change and social inclusion. These women were the forerunners to black-feminism and intersectional feminist analysis of race, gender, and class.

Dr. Debra Schultz is Assistant Professor of History at the City University of New York and directs the Brooklyn Public Scholars Project in Civic Engagement. As one of the founders of Open Society Institute’s International Women’s Program, she served for ten years as its Director of Programs. Her research interests focus on the politics of memory for social change movements, particularly intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, and memory.

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