ISBN:
9780807889121
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (304 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
398.2089/96073
Keywords:
Historiography Social aspects
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Women historians Biography
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African American historians Biography
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African American women Historiography
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African American women Biography
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African American women Social conditions
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African American historians ; Biography
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African American women ; Biography
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African American women ; Historiography
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African American women ; Social conditions
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Historiography ; Social aspects ; United States
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Women historians ; United States ; Biography
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Electronic books
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Abstract:
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 personal histories revealed here also tell the story of the struggle to establish a new scholarly field. Black women, alleged by affirmative-action supporters and opponents to be "twofers," recount how they have confronted racism, sexism, and homophobia on college campuses. They explore how the personal and the political intersect in historical research and writing and in the academy. Organized by the years the contributors earned their Ph.D.'s, these essays follow the black women who entered the field of history during and after the civil rights and black power movements, endured the turbulent 1970s, and opened up the field of black women's history in the 1980s. By comparing the experiences of older and younger generations, this collection makes visible the benefits and drawbacks of the institutionalization of African American and African American women's history. Telling Histories captures the voices of these pioneers, intimately and publicly. Contributors:Elsa Barkley Brown, University of MarylandMia Bay, Rutgers UniversityLeslie Brown, Washington University in St. LouisCrystal N. Feimster, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillSharon Harley, University of MarylandWanda A. Hendricks, University of South CarolinaDarlene Clark Hine, Northwestern UniversityChana
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Telling History -- Un Essai d'Ego-Histoire -- Becoming a Black Woman's Historian -- A Journey through History -- Being and Thinking outside of the Box: A Black Woman's Experience in Academia -- My History in History -- The Politics of Memory and Place: Reflections of an African American Female Scholar -- History without Illusion -- On the Margins: Creating a Space and Place in the Academy -- History Lessons -- The Death of Dry Tears -- Looking Backward in Order to Go Forward: Black Women Historians and Black Women's History -- Journey toward a Different Self: The Defining Power of Illness, Race, and Gender -- Bodies of History -- Experiencing Black Feminism -- Dancing on the Edges of History, but Never Dancing Alone -- How a Hundred Years of History Tracked Me Down -- Not So Ivory: African American Women Historians Creating Academic Communities -- Contributors -- A section of illustrations.
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https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=515702
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