“Powerful Stories of Resistance Against Impossible Odds:" Teaching Rebecca Hall’s Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts as Critical Methodology

Abstract

In this teaching note, I show how teaching with Rebecca Hall’s (2021) Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts subverts what undergraduate research design classes can do, showing how critical methodology courses – contrary to their reputation as scientistic exercises surveying a pre-packaged list of methods – are an especially apt place to teach about anti-racism, feminist theory, resistance, and social power.