Telling histories Black women historians in the ivory tower / [electronic resource] : edited by Deborah Gray White. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008. - 291 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. - Gender & American culture . - Gender & American culture. .

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.


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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.


Electronic books.

E185.86 / .T379 2008eb

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