{"id":8,"date":"2022-12-15T19:59:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T19:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/barbarasmith\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2023-06-15T13:55:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T13:55:09","slug":"academics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/barbarasmith\/academics\/","title":{"rendered":"Academics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Barbara Smith was an interdepartmental major in English and sociology. As a senior, she completed independent work in both subjects. For English, she completed a study of Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, and Amiri Baraka under the guidance of Professor Richard Johnson. Quite interested in social theory, she reviewed sociology and literature under the guidance of Marjorie Childers, then a new instructor at Mount Holyoke by way of The New School in New York City. Smith\u2019s work-study position was in the economics and sociology department (then a joint department) providing clerical work such as mimeographing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-4 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/compass.fivecolleges.edu\/object\/mtholyoke:44800\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1703\" height=\"2538\" data-id=\"259\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/barbarasmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/856\/2023\/02\/Catalog6869-1.jpg\" alt=\"Mount Holyoke College Course Catalog \u201868-89.\" class=\"wp-image-259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/barbarasmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/856\/2023\/02\/Catalog6869-1.jpg 1703w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/barbarasmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/856\/2023\/02\/Catalog6869-1-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/barbarasmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/856\/2023\/02\/Catalog6869-1-687x1024.jpg 687w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/barbarasmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/856\/2023\/02\/Catalog6869-1-768x1145.jpg 768w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/barbarasmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/856\/2023\/02\/Catalog6869-1-1031x1536.jpg 1031w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/barbarasmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/856\/2023\/02\/Catalog6869-1-1374x2048.jpg 1374w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1703px) 100vw, 1703px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/compass.fivecolleges.edu\/object\/mtholyoke:44800\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1737\" height=\"2560\" data-id=\"262\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/barbarasmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/856\/2023\/02\/Catalog6869-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Mount Holyoke College Course Catalog \u201868-89.\" class=\"wp-image-262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/barbarasmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/856\/2023\/02\/Catalog6869-2-scaled.jpg 1737w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/barbarasmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/856\/2023\/02\/Catalog6869-2-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/barbarasmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/856\/2023\/02\/Catalog6869-2-695x1024.jpg 695w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/barbarasmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/856\/2023\/02\/Catalog6869-2-768x1132.jpg 768w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/barbarasmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/856\/2023\/02\/Catalog6869-2-1042x1536.jpg 1042w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/barbarasmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/856\/2023\/02\/Catalog6869-2-1390x2048.jpg 1390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1737px) 100vw, 1737px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\"><em>Pages from the Mount Holyoke College Course Catalog, 1968-1969<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara Smith was an interdepartmental major in English and sociology. 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