Portland State Black Studies

Please join my special guest Professor Clare Washington. Professor Washington holds a B.S. with high honors and distinction in Black Studies and English/Professional Writing from Portland State University (2007); and M.S. (Summa Cum Laude) in Interdisciplinary Studies from Portland State University (2010). Her scholarly research and teaching interests include women and resistance in the Africa Diaspora, exploring the roles of the lesser known women in resistance movements both in the Caribbean and the USA, during and after the period of enslavement; African America cowgirls of the Old West; and black women sharecroppers in the southern U.S. Professor Clare Washington joined host Antoinette Harrell on a poverty tour in the Mississippi Delta. Professor Washington has also taught a course in Peonage in Louisiana and the Mississippi Delta.