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

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Other Authors: White, Deborah G. (Deborah Gray), 1949-
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2008], ©2008.
Series:Gender & American culture.
Subjects:
African American women > Historiography.
African American historians > Biography.
Women historians > United States > Biography.
African American women > Biography.
African American women > Social conditions.
Historiography > Social aspects > United States.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:291 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
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.