Telling Histories : Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower /

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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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Autres auteurs: White, Deborah G. (Deborah Gray), 1949- (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2008]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Historiennes > États-Unis > Biographies.
Noires americaines > Conditions sociales.
Noires americaines > Historiographie.
Noires americaines > Biographies.
Historiens noirs americains > Biographies.
Women historians.
Historiography > Social aspects.
African American women > Social conditions.
African American women > Historiography.
African American women.
African American historians.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
Historiography > Social aspects > United States.
African American women > Biography.
Women historians > United States > Biography.
African American historians > Biography.
United States.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (304 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781469604763

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