New Directions in African American Women's History

AHA Session 284
Sunday, January 5, 2025: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Gramercy West (New York Hilton, Second Floor)
Chair:
Tamika Nunley, Oberlin College
Papers:
Black Women’s Political Culture and the "State" of Reconstruction
Brandi Clay Brimmer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Black Women and Sexual Violence in the Antebellum South
Shannon Camille Eaves, College of Charleston
Black Women's Life Writing in the United States
K. T. Ewing, University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa
Promise and Possibility: Black Women and Public History
Crystal M. Moten, Obama Presidential Center
Black Women's 20th-Century Nationalisms
Arielle Rochelin, Cornell University
New Directions in Black Girlhood and Childhood
Crystal Lynn Webster, University of British Columbia

Session Abstract

New Directions in African American women’s history explores shifts in debates, methods, theories, and questions that shape the state of the field. Participants will offer insights and analysis of historiographical interventions in the field covering the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. The roundtable features trailblazing scholars, more recent cohorts of historians and emerging voices in the field with the intention of facilitating an intergenerational dialogue about new directions in African American women’s history.
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