LEADER 02849oam 22005414a 450 001 9910669820403321 005 20250905110027.0 010 $a979-88-908596-9-3 010 $a979-88-908597-0-9 010 $a1-4696-6189-6 010 $a1-4696-6188-8 035 $a(CKB)5590000000443331 035 $a(OCoLC)1242875653 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse97798 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6533560 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6533560 035 $a(Perlego)1732506 035 $a(ODN)ODN0005759052 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000443331 100 $a20210206d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aHalf in Shadow$eThe Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay /$fShanna Greene Benjamin 210 1$aChapel Hill :$cThe University of North Carolina Press,$d2021. 210 4$dİ2021. 215 $a1 online resource (1 online resource) $c13 halftones 311 08$a1-4696-6253-1 311 08$a1-4696-6190-X 327 $aCover -- Contents -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Scene I | The Site of Memory -- Chapter One. Strategies, Not Truths -- Scene II | She May Very Well Have Invented Herself -- Chapter Two. Some Very Vital Missing Thing -- Scene III | Rootedness -- Chapter Three. When and Where I Enter -- Scene IV | Home -- Chapter Four. Crepuscule with Nellie -- Photographs -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $a"Nellie Y. McKay (1930-2006) was a pivotal figure in contemporary American letters. The author of several books, McKay is best known for coediting the canon-making Norton Anthology of African American Literature with Henry Louis Gates Jr., which helped secure a place for the scholarly study of Black writing that had been ignored by white academia. However, there is more to McKay's life and legacy than her literary scholarship. After her passing, new details about McKay's life emerged, surprising everyone who knew her. Why did McKay choose to hide so many details of her past? Shanna Greene Benjamin examines McKay's path through the professoriate to learn about the strategies, sacrifices, and successes of contemporary Black women in the American academy"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aWomen's studies$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aAfrican American women scholars$vBiography 606 $aAfrican American women college teachers$vBiography 615 0$aWomen's studies$xHistory. 615 0$aAfrican American women scholars 615 0$aAfrican American women college teachers 676 $a378.12092 676 $a378.12092 700 $aGreene Benjamin$b Shanna$01337294 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910669820403321 996 $aHalf in Shadow$93056590 997 $aUNINA