Telling histories : black women historians in the ivory tower /

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Imprint:Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2008.
Description:1 online resource : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Gender & American culture
Gender & American culture.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11212097
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Other authors / contributors:White, Deborah G. (Deborah Gray), 1949-
ISBN:9780807889121
0807889121
9781469604763
1469604760
9780807832011
0807832014
9780807858813
0807858811
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
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Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: Telling histories. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2008 9780807832011