The History of Black Women and Health

Session Submission Type: Plenary Session

Abstract

This plenary session will feature a discussion on the relationship between race, gender, and medicine while emphasizing the health disparities Black women have faced in American and global history. The session features several of the field’s leading historians, writers, practitioners, preservationists, and thinkers on the topic of Black women and health.

Sub Unit

• 107th Meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History

Moderator

• Ameenah Shakir, Florida A&M University

Participant

• Deirdre Cooper Owens, University of Nebraska

• Kimberly Jeffries Leonard, The Links, Inc. and The Black Women's Agenda

• Michelle Browder, The Mothers of Gynecology

Zoom Webinar Host

• Webinar 1 Host, ASALH