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Telling Histories : Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower /

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 st...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: White, Deborah G. (Deborah Gray), 1949- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2008]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (304 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781469604763