Telling histories
Subtitle: Black women historians in the ivory tower
By: edited by Deborah Gray White.
Contributors: White, Deborah G. 1949-
Series: Gender and American culture
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780807832011; 9780807858813
Subjects: African American women -- Historiography -- Anecdotes; African American historians -- Biography -- Anecdotes; Women historians -- United States -- Biography -- Anecdotes; African American women -- Biography -- Anecdotes; African American women -- Social conditions -- Anecdotes; Historiography -- Social aspects -- United States -- Anecdotes
Genres: Anecdotes.; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: A telling history / Deborah Gray White; title: Un essai d'ego-histoire / Nell Irvin Painter; title: Becoming a Black woman's historian / Darlene Clark Hine; title: A journey through history / Merline Pitre; title: Being and thinking outside of the box : a Black woman's experience in academia / Rosalyn Terborg-Penn; title: My history in history / Deborah Gray White; title: The politics of memory and place : reflections of an African American female scholar / Sharon Harley; title: History without illusion / Julie Saville; title: On the margins : creating a space and place in the academy / Wanda A. Hendricks; title: History lessons / Brenda Elaine Stevenson; title: The death of dry tears / Ula Taylor; title: Looking backward in order to go forward : Black women historians and Black women's history / Mia Bay; title: Journey toward a different self : the defining power of illness, race, and gender / Chana Kai Lee; title: Bodies of history / Elsa Barkley Brown; title: Experiencing Black feminism / Jennifer L. Morgan; title: Dancing on the edges of history, but never dancing alone / Barbara Ransby; title: How a hundred years of history tracked me down / Leslie Brown; title: Not so ivory : African American women historians creating academic communities / Crystal N. Feimster.