#Blackwomanhood: “How a Small Seminar Course Engaged Readers Everywhere.”

“As a graduate seminar, “Black Womanhood,” a new course team-taught by two professors at the Johns Hopkins University this semester, is designed to be intimate. But the professors, Martha S. Jones and Jessica Marie Johnson, also wanted to widely share the readings they’d curated on a topic they are passionate about. Johnson posted a version of the syllabus — just the readings, not the assignments — on her blog, Diaspora Hypertext. Unlike the conventional policy-heavy document, the public syllabus for “Black Womanhood” was designed to be eye-catching, with lots of images meant to draw readers in. It set out a schedule of readings to keep up with — one week’s are about the trans-Atlantic slave trade, while another’s cover black marriage.”