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Remi Alapo. Gen X: The Role of Culture on the Leadership Styles of Women in Leadership Positions. New York: ASTA, Oct. 2016

 A 12 year Journey with Women’s Federation for World Peace New York Metro ” https://www.wfwp.us/news-articles/2022/5/24/a-12-year-journey-with-womens-federation-for-world-peace-new-york-city

Readings: additional resources will be posted on BB

Alberto, Paulina. “Of sentiment, science and myth: shifting metaphors of racial inclusion in twentieth-century Brazil.” Social History 37.3(2012): 261-296.

Aschenbrenner, Joyce. “Katherine Dunham: Anthropologist, Artist, Humanist.” In African-American Pioneers in Anthropology, edited by Ira E. Harrison and Faye V. Harrison, 137-153. Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1999.

Bailey, Moya. “Misogynoir in Medical Media: On Caster Semenya and R. Kelly.” Catalyst: Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 2.2(2016): 1-31.

Battle, Nishaun T. “From Slavery to Jane Crow to Say Her Name: An Intersectional Examination of Black Women and Punishment.” Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism 15.1(2016): 109-136.

Barnett, Bernice McNair. “Angela Davis and Women, Race, & Class: A Pioneer in Integrative RGC Studies.” Race, Gender & Class, Interdisciplinary Topics in Race, Gender, and Class 10.3(2003): 9-22.

Brown, Jayna. “Being Cellular: Race, the Inhuman, and the Plasticity of Life”. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian & Gay Studies 21.2/3(2015): 321-341.

Caldwell, Lilly. “’Look at Her Hair’: The Body Politics of Black Womanhood in Brazil.” Transforming Anthropology 11.2(2004): 18-29.

Candelario, Ginetta E.B. “Editor’s Introduction.” Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism 16.2(2018): pp. V-VIII.

Collins, Patricia Hill. “What’s in a Name: Womanism, Black Feminism and Beyond.” Black Scholar 26.1(1996): 9-17.

Hurston, Zora Neale. “Folklore and Music.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 12.1(1991): 182-198.

Lopez, Iris. “Agency and Constraint: Sterilization and Reproductive Freedom among Puerto Rican Women In New York City.” Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development,

Rompiendo Barreras de Génaro: Social Construction of Gender in U.S. Latino Communities 22.3/4(1993): 299-323.

Lindsey, Treva. “Complicated Crossroads: Black Feminisms, Sex Positivism, and Popular Culture.” African and Black Diaspora, Special Issue on Feminist and Gender Theorizing in the Black Diaspora 6.1(2013): 55-65.

Matory, James Lorand. “Gendered Agendas: The Secrets Scholars Keep about Yoruba-Atlantic Religion.” Gender and History 15.3(2003): 408-38.

McClaurin, Irma. “Zora Neale Hurston: Enigma, Heterodox, and Progenitor of Black Studies.” Fire!: The Multimedia Journal 1(2012): 49-67.

Perry, Keisha-Khan. “The Roots of Black Resistance: Race, Gender, and the Struggle for Land Rights in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.” Social Identities 10.6(2004): 7-38.

Rodriguez, Cheryl. “Invoking Fannie Lou Hamer: Research, Ethnography and Activism in Low-Income Communities.” Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Development 32.2(2003): 231-251.

Schuller, Mark. “Violence and Venereal Disease: Structural Violence, Gender, and HIV/AIDS.” In Killing with Kindness: Haiti, International Aid, and NGOs, 14-41. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2012. 7 AFN/ANT 128-1401 [2541]

Sheller, Mimi. “Quasheba, Mother, Queen: Black Women’s Public Leadership and Political Protest in Post-Emancipation Jamaica, 1834-65.” Slavery & Abolition 19.3(1998): 90-117.

Smith, Christen A. “Toward a Black Feminist Model of Black Atlantic Liberation: Remembering Beatriz Nascimento.” Meridians: feminisms, race, transnationalism 14.2(2016): 71-87.

Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta, ed. How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2017.

Williams, Erica L. “Geographies of Blackness, Sex Work, and Exclusion in the Tourist Districts of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.” Gender, Place, Culture: A Feminist Journal of Geography, (2013) DOI:10.1080/0966369X.2013.786685.

Yelvington, Kevin. “Flirting in the Factory.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 2.2(1996): 313-333.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: BLACK WOMEN IN AFRICA AND IN THE AMERICAS [not in any particular order]

UNITED STATES
1] Black Women in Antiquity Edited by Ivan Van Sertima Published by Transaction 1992 ISBN: 0-87855-982-5
2] The Color Complex: The Politics of Skin Color Among African Americans. Russell, Wilson, and Hall. Published by: Anchor – Doubleday 1993 ISBN: 0-385-47161-0
3] Alberto, Paulina. “Of sentiment, science, and myth: shifting metaphors of racial inclusion in twentieth-century Brazil.” Social History 37.3(2012): 261-296.
4] Aschenbrenner, Joyce. “Katherine Dunham: Anthropologist, Artist, Humanist.” In African-American Pioneers in Anthropology, edited by Ira E. Harrison and Faye V. Harrison, 137-153. Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1999.
5] Bailey, Moya. “Misogynoir in Medical Media: On Caster Semenya and R. Kelly.” Catalyst: Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 2.2(2016): 1-31.
6] Battle, Nishaun T. “From Slavery to Jane Crow to Say Her Name: An Intersectional Examination of Black Women and Punishment.” Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism 15.1(2016): 109-136.
7] Barnett, Bernice McNair. “Angela Davis and Women, Race, & Class: A Pioneer in Integrative RGC Studies.” Race, Gender & Class, Interdisciplinary Topics in Race, Gender, and Class 10.3(2003): 9-22.
8] Brown, Jayna. “Being Cellular: Race, the Inhuman, and the Plasticity of Life”. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian & Gay Studies 21.2/3(2015): 321-341.
9] Caldwell, Lilly. “’Look at Her Hair’: The Body Politics of Black Womanhood in Brazil.” Transforming Anthropology 11.2(2004): 18-29.
10] Candelario, Ginetta E.B. “Editor’s Introduction.” Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism 16.2(2018): pp. V-VIII.
11] Collins, Patricia Hill. “What’s in a Name: Womanism, Black Feminism and Beyond.” Black Scholar 26.1(1996): 9-17.
12] Hurston, Zora Neale. “Folklore and Music.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 12.1(1991): 182-198.
13] Lopez, Iris. “Agency and Constraint: Sterilization and Reproductive Freedom among Puerto Rican Women In New York City.” Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, Rompiendo Barreras de Génaro: Social Construction of Gender in U.S. Latino Communities 22.3/4 (1993): 299-323.
14] Lindsey, Treva. “Complicated Crossroads: Black Feminisms, Sex Positivism, and Popular Culture.” African and Black Diaspora, Special Issue on Feminist and Gender Theorizing in the Black Diaspora 6.1(2013): 55-65.
15] Matory, James Lorand. “Gendered Agendas: The Secrets Scholars Keep about Yoruba-Atlantic Religion.” Gender and History 15.3(2003): 408-38.
16] McClaurin, Irma. “Zora Neale Hurston: Enigma, Heterodox, and Progenitor of Black Studies.” Fire!: The Multimedia Journal 1(2012): 49-67.
17] Perry, Keisha-Khan. “The Roots of Black Resistance: Race, Gender, and the Struggle for Land Rights in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.” Social Identities 10.6(2004): 7-38.
18] Rodriguez, Cheryl. “Invoking Fannie Lou Hamer: Research, Ethnography and Activism in Low-Income Communities.” Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Development 32.2(2003): 231-251.
19] Schuller, Mark. “Violence and Venereal Disease: Structural Violence, Gender, and HIV/AIDS.” In Killing with Kindness: Haiti, International Aid, and NGOs, 14-41. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2012.

CARIBBEAN

BRAZIL

AFRICA

Other
a. Kindred (Octavia Butler)
b. Song Yet Sung (James McBride)
c. Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American Pilgrimage (Pauli Murray)
(3) Podcast Links:
a. Truth Be Told https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/truthbetold
b. Code Switch https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510312/codeswitch
c. Intersectionality Matters https://aapf.org/podcast
d. Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/
e. The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/
f. Speaking of Racism https://speakingofracism.podbean.com/
g. CIIS Public Programs Podcast https://www.ciispod.com/

VIDEOS

Achievements of Pre-Colonial Africa. “https://youtu.be/3Ec1MlAhYAE

African History from 1500 – present hosted by Oyotunji African Kingdom,. “https://youtu.be/irI3a8MsvRk

Book discussion I on The Role of Culture on Women’s Leadership. “https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2279917025643337

Book Discussion 1 (video 2) on The Role of Culture on Women’s Leadership. “https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2422764397968105

Black Women in Africa, and in the Americas hosted by Oyotunji African Kingdom. “https://youtu.be/5Y3DgzXEYVM

From The Pandemic to Spirituality, Wellness and Self Love.. “https://youtu.be/7UpYhMhfjfg

Interfaith Dialogue Women’s History Month.. “https://youtu.be/Gi4hQJKLDT4

Pre Colonial Women in Africa: power, rights and privileges w/ Prof. Victoria Alapo. “https://youtu.be/3GFQzGes_jI

Pre Colonial Africa guest lecture by Prof. Victoria Alapo. “https://youtu.be/mW46u71BqVE

Revised Lectures on the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade w/ Dr. Wale Ajibade. “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBFCA-JGxJY

The Role of Culture on Women’s Leadership.. “https://youtu.be/Y5JovwqTPEcTraditional

Storytelling Methods in Promoting Social Change.. “https://youtu.be/7sBsy1cwpa4

UNA USA Members Day 2017. “https://vimeo.com/210799879

For any question or feedback, please contact Prof. Remi Alapo

York College, CUNY

History Department: Black Studies / Cultural Diversity program

Email: oalapo1@york.cuny.edu

Faculty page – https://www.york.cuny.edu/portal_college/oalapo1