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The Emerging Voices and Paradigms have arrived ! ! ! ! ! Drs. Ida E. Jones and Elizabeth Clark-Lewis, editors, “This volume makes it clear that today’s African American women scholars are focused on an array of subjects largely ignored by others. Using a variety of contexts, these African American scholars accentuate the historical field’s most innovative approaches. Of significance is the way African American women historians are incorporating the lives of ordinary men and women whose activist strategies were previously believed to be too obscure (or unimportant) to merit inquiry.”
Dr. Sandra Jowers-Barber, Assistant Professor - History Program in the Urban Affairs Social Sciences and Social Work Department of the University of the District of Columbia, has published an article entitled "Teaching the African Diaspora: Using History to Connect People" on http://VidaAfroLatina.com. The mission of Vida Afro Latina, is a new site whose mission ‘Is to enlighten and empower Afro-Latinos, as well as others of African or Latin American heritage. We also strive to bridge the breach in understanding and communication between these groups. We achieve these goals with coverage of Afro-Latino issues and newsmakers, and with commentary from political, cultural, education and grassroots leaders across the U.S. and throughout the Western Hemisphere.” This site was launched by Lori Robinson.
Dr. Deidre Hill Butler, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Union College in Schenectady, New York was the invited guest speaker for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Albany, New York division’s annual Black History Month Program. Dr. Hill Butler’s talk was titled “Dr. Carter G. Woodson and The Origins of Multiculturalism and Connections to Black History Month,” which is also the 2008 National Black History Month theme from the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, of which Prof. Deidre Hill Butler is a longtime member.
Dr. Ida E. Jones, Senior Manuscript Librarian at the Moorland Spingarn Research Center, was the 2008 Black history month keynote speaker at the United States Department of Labor. Dr. Jones spoke from the national Black history theme Dr. Carter G. Woodson and the Origins of Multicultural Education, the formal title of her presentation was Gradually Awakening a Consciousness to Truth: The World of Carter G. Woodson in Shaping Black Cultural Identity. She informed the audience that multiculturalism could not be understood apart from the formation of a Black cultural identity shaped through the lives, writings and legacy of Woodson’s generation, those first born in the wake of enslavement.
Marshanda Smith defended her comprehensive exams and dissertation proposal. She is now a PhD Candidate in Comparative Black History.
ABWH members were well represented at the OAH's Annual Meeting on Saturday March 29, 2008 in a session entitled: "Darlene Clark Hine and the Evolution of Black Women's History." The panelists were Deborah Gray White, (chair) Rutgers University. Jacquelyn Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Francille Rusan Wilson, University of Maryland, and Pero G. Dagbovie, Michigan State University. Darlene Clark Hine responded to their papers/remarks.
Stephanie Evans books Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954: An Intellectual History will be reissued in paperback in May 2008.
Deirdre Cooper Owens will graduate from the University of California Los Angeles with a Ph.D. in History in June 2008. After which she will join the faculty of the University of Mississippi in Fall 2008 as an Assistant Professor of 19th Century History and Slavery.
Bettye Collier-Thomas, Temple University History Professor, is the recipient of a 2008-2009 Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars Resident Fellowship.
Wanda Hendricks, Associate Professor of History at University of South Carolina, published "On The Margins: Creating a Space and Place in the Academy" in Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower, edited by Deborah Gray White (University of North Carolina Press).
The Organization of American Historians has created the Darlene Clark Hine Award for the best book on African American Women and Gender History - the first OAH award named in honor of a black woman. ABWH contributed funds to this effort which was led by former ABWH president Wanda Hendricks, Associate Professor of History at University of South Carolina. The first prize will be awarded in 2010 at the Washington, DC conference.
Robyn Spencer's article Engendering the Black Freedom Struggle: Revolutionary Black Womanhood and the Black Panther Party in the Bay Area, California has been published in the Journal of Women's History, Volume 20, Number 1, 2008, pp. 90-113.
Jacqueline A. Rouse's article "Connecting the People's Needs with Movement's Objectives: Septima P. Clark and Community Empowerment" has been published in International Journal of Africana Studies, Volume 13, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2007, pp.68-82.
Dr. Sandra Jowers-Barber: In November 2008, Galladet University Press published A Fair Chance in the Race of Life: The Role of Gallaudet University in Deaf History. This collection of articles reflect the University's role in deaf education. I am blessed to have a chapter, "The Struggle to Educate Black Deaf Schoolchildren in Washington, D.C.", in this publication. The link is http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/excerpts/AFCcontributors.html
Deidre Hill-Butler received tenure at Union College in New York. She is now Associate Professor of Sociology.
Dr. Juliet E. K Walker, Professor, Department of History & Founder/Director Center of Black Business History Entrepreneurship, Technology recently was acknowledged for her groundbreaking work in researching about the history of New Philadelphia, IL. An all Black town founded by her ancestor in 1836
read more: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/college_news/current/newphiladelphia/ either link http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/history/news/current/newphiladelphia/
Congratulations to Professor Hill Butler newly tenured faculty at Union College, Schenectady, NY. Hill Butlers research areas encompass the sociology of African American Culture and African American womens representations in society. Her current focus is the role of African American women in contemporary stepfamilies. She has published articles in Afro-Americans in New York Life and History: An Interdisciplinary Journal and the Journal of the Association for the Research on Mothering. She is a lifetime member of the Association of Black Women Historians and contributed an article to the organizations 2008 text, Emerging Voices and Paradigms. She also guest-edited an Africana Mothering-themed edition of the Journal of Pan African Studies. Professor Hill Butler incorporates local service learning experiences into her upper-level courses and teaches courses on comparative American family structures, the intersections of race, class, and gender, and African American feminist practice.
Shelia Aird of SUNYs Empire State College, suggested that I share information about The Souls of Black Girls a documentary. I checked out the site, it seems to be a potentially good teaching tool for African American womens scholarship from a contemporary angle. The site states The Souls of Black Girls is a provocative news documentary that takes a critical look at media images--how they are instituted, established and controlled. The documentary also examines the relationship between the historical and existing media images of women of color and raises the question of whether they may be suffering from a self-image disorder as a result of trying to attain the standards of beauty that are celebrated in media images.
The documentary features candid interviews with young women discussing their self-image and social commentary from Actresses Regina King and Jada Pinkett Smith, PBS Washington Week Moderator Gwen Ifill, Rapper/Political Activist Chuck D, and Cultural Critic Michaela Angela Davis, among others. The Souls of Black Girls is a piece that attempts to provoke honest dialogue and critical thinking among women of color about media images and our present conditioninternally and externally. To learn more visit http://www.soulsofblackgirls.com/home.htmlDr. Clark-Lewis became a grandmother again on October 8, 2009. Mother and baby girl are well.
Francille Russan-Wilson was elected president of the Commission on the Status of Women in Los Angles.
ABWH is now on Facebook too.
