Telling histories : Black women historians in the ivory tower /

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Imprint:Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008.
Description:291 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Gender & American culture
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6833052
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Other authors / contributors:White, Deborah G. (Deborah Gray), 1949-
ISBN:9780807832011 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807832014 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807858813 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807858811 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: A Telling History
  • Un Essai d'Ego-Histoire
  • Becoming a Black Woman's Historian
  • A Journey through History
  • Being and Thinking outside of the Box: A Black Woman's Experience in Academia
  • My History in History
  • The Politics of Memory and Place: Reflections of an African American Female Scholar
  • History without Illusion
  • On the Margins: Creating a Space and Place in the Academy
  • History Lessons
  • The Death of Dry Tears
  • Looking Backward in Order to Go Forward: Black Women Historians and Black Women's History
  • Journey toward a Different Self: The Defining Power of Illness, Race, and Gender
  • Bodies of History
  • Experiencing Black Feminism
  • Dancing on the Edges of History, but Never Dancing Alone
  • How a Hundred Years of History Tracked Me Down
  • Not So Ivory: African American Women Historians Creating Academic Communities
  • Contributors