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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810339803321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2008

ISBN

979-88-9313-202-1

1-4696-0476-0

0-8078-8912-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (291 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; ; 25 cm.)

Collana

Gender & American culture

Altri autori (Persone)

WhiteDeborah G <1949-> (Deborah Gray)

Disciplina

398.2089/96073

Soggetti

African American women - Historiography

African American historians

Women historians - United States

African American women

African American women - Social conditions

Historiography - Social aspects - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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.