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 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:
Mia Bay, Rutgers University
Elsa Barkley Brown, University of Maryland
Leslie Brown, Washington University, St. Louis
Crystal N.Feimster, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill
Sharon Harley, University of Maryland
Wanda A. Hendricks, University of South Carolina
Darlene Clark Hine, Northwestern University
Chana Kai Lee, University of Georgia
Jennifer L. Morgan, New York University
Nell Irvin Painter, Newark, New Jersey
Merline Pitre, Texas Southern University
Barbara Ransby, University of Illinois at Chicago
Julie Saville, University of Chicago
Brenda Elaine Stevenson, University of California, Los
Angeles
Ula Taylor, University of California, Berkeley
Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, Morgan State University
Deborah Gray White, Rutgers University
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