ISBN:
0807889121
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1469604760
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9780807889121
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9781469604763
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
Gender & American culture
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DDC:
398.2089/96073
Keywords:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
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African American historians
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African American women
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African American women / Historiography
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African American women / Social conditions
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Historiography / Social aspects
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Women historians
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Gesellschaft
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Weibliche Schwarze. Amerika
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African American women Historiography
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African American historians Biography
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Women historians Biography
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African American women Biography
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African American women Social conditions
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Historiography Social aspects
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Soziale Situation
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Schwarze Frau
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Historikerin
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Geschichtsschreibung
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USA
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USA
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Biografie
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USA
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Schwarze Frau
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Soziale Situation
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Geschichtsschreibung
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USA
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Schwarze Frau
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Historikerin
Note:
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
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Includes bibliographical references
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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
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The field of black women's history gained recognition as a legitimate field of study 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 historie
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