Merze Tate - The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar

A powerful and inspiring biography of Merze Tate, a trailblazing Black woman scholar and intrepid world traveler   Born in rural Michigan during the Jim Crow era, the bold and irrepressible Merze Tate (1905–1996) refused to limit her intellectual ambitions, despite living in what she called a “sex and race discriminating world.� Against all odds, through her brilliance and hard work Tate earned degrees in international relations from Oxford University in 1935 and a doctorate in government from Harvard in 1941. She then joined the faculty of Howard University, where she taught for three decades of her long life spanning the tumultuous twentieth century.   This book revives and critiques Tate’s prolific and prescient body of scholarship, with topics ranging from nuclear arms limitations to race and imperialism in Asia, the Pacific, and Africa. Tate credited her success to other women, Black and white, who helped her realize her dream of becoming a scholar. Her quest for adventure took her around the world twice, traveling solo with her cameras.   Barbara Savage’s lucid and skilled rendering of Tate’s story is built on more than a decade of research. Tate’s life and work challenge provincial approaches to African American and American history, women’s history, the history of education, diplomatic history, and international thought.

General

Imprint:	Yale University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2024
Authors:	Barbara D. Savage
Dimensions:	235 x 156mm (L x W)
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-0-300-27027-3
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	0-300-27027-5
Barcode:	9780300270273

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