Title Telling histories : black women historians in the ivory tower / edited by Deborah Gray White

Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2008] ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (291 pages) : illustrations Series Gender & American culture Gender & American culture. 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 Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes 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. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed August 4, 2021) In Literature Online - Black Writing Collection Subject 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 SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies. African American historians African American women African American women -- Historiography African American women -- Social conditions Historiography -- Social aspects Women historians United States Genre/Form Electronic books Biographies Form Electronic book Author White, Deborah G. (Deborah Gray), 1949- editor. LC no. 2007045654 ISBN 9780807889121 0807889121 9781469604763 1469604760

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