Telling histories : Black women historians in the ivory tower / edited by Deborah Gray White.

Date:
[2008], ©2008
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Publication/Creation

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2008], ©2008.

Physical description

291 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction: A telling history / Deborah Gray White -- Un essai d'ego-histoire / Nell Irvin Painter -- Becoming a Black woman's historian / Darlene Clark Hine -- A journey through history / Merline Pitre -- Being and thinking outside of the box : a Black woman's experience in academia / Rosalyn Terborg-Penn -- My history in history / Deborah Gray White -- The politics of memory and place : reflections of an African American female scholar / Sharon Harley -- History without illusion / Julie Saville -- On the margins : creating a space and place in the academy / Wanda A. Hendricks -- History lessons / Brenda Elaine Stevenson -- The death of dry tears / Ula Taylor -- Looking backward in order to go forward : Black women historians and Black women's history / Mia Bay -- Journey toward a different self : the defining power of illness, race, and gender / Chana Kai Lee -- Bodies of history / Elsa Barkley Brown -- Experiencing Black feminism / Jennifer L. Morgan -- Dancing on the edges of history, but never dancing alone / Barbara Ransby -- How a hundred years of history tracked me down / Leslie Brown -- Not so ivory : African American women historians creating academic communities / Crystal N. Feimster.

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  • 9780807832011
  • 0807832014
  • 9780807858813
  • 0807858811