04143nam 2200721 a 450 991045637830332120200520144314.01-4696-0476-00-8078-8912-1(CKB)2520000000007786(EBL)515702(OCoLC)609736891(SSID)ssj0000366622(PQKBManifestationID)11263137(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000366622(PQKBWorkID)10413986(PQKB)10868350(StDuBDS)EDZ0000517286(MiAaPQ)EBC515702(MdBmJHUP)muse28078(Au-PeEL)EBL515702(CaPaEBR)ebr10355382(UK-CbPIL)2067929(EXLCZ)99252000000000778620071105d2008 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTelling histories[electronic resource] Black women historians in the ivory tower /edited by Deborah Gray WhiteChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20081 online resource (304 p.)Gender & American cultureDescription based upon print version of record.0-8078-5881-1 0-8078-3201-4 Includes bibliographical references.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.The field of black women's history gained recognition as a legitimate field of study only late in the twentieth century. Collecting stories that are both deeply personal and powerfully political, Telling Histories compiles seventeen personal narratives by leading black women historians at various stages in their careers. Their essays illuminate how--first as graduate students and then as professional historians--they entered and navigated the realm of higher education, a world concerned with and dominated by whites and men. In distinct voices and from different vantage points, the persoGender & American culture.African American womenHistoriographyAfrican American historiansBiographyWomen historiansUnited StatesBiographyAfrican American womenBiographyAfrican American womenSocial conditionsHistoriographySocial aspectsUnited StatesElectronic books.African American womenHistoriography.African American historiansWomen historiansAfrican American womenAfrican American womenSocial conditions.HistoriographySocial aspects398.2089/96073White Deborah G(Deborah Gray),1949-87360MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456378303321Telling histories2458780UNINA