Deborah Gray White
Biographic Data
| ID | 1085382 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deborah Gray White |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deborah Gray |
| FAMILY NAME | White |
| SIGNATURE | WHITE D G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 129 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
On Black Women, Memory, and History
This article introduces my mother and maternal grandmother into the American story. I bring together sources like the census and family bible, documented history, and my memory to demonstrate that genealogy and family history expand the archive on black women and the black family. I also reflect on the way history and memory are dichotomized and argue that autobiography/memoir holds a key to freeing black women’s history from the violence of the …
Guns and Motherhood
Maternalism has sparked controversy from left to right, and the Million Mom March held true to this tradition. While building on a rich history of maternalist activism, the march also triggered age-old conflicts about the definition of good and bad domesticity, proving that at the turn of the new millennium, postmodernity had not changed things. As powerful as the feminist critique was, it was drowned out by pro-gun advocates. But against the Mil…
Remembering Dr. Rosalyn Terborg-Penn
Previous article FreeIn MemoriamRemembering Dr. Rosalyn Terborg-Penn: Scholar, Activist, FriendPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMorePero Gaglo DagbovieMichigan State UniversityFollowing a tradition established by our self-sacrificing founding editor, Carter G. Woodson, The Journal of African American History (JAAH) habitually publish…
Lost in the USA
“Lost in the USA: American Identity from the Promise Keepers to the Million Mom March” is a book about Americans’ search for personal tranquility at the turn of the twenty-first century. It argues that beneath the surface of prosperity and peace, ordinary Americans were struggling to adjust and adapt to the forces of postmodernity – immigration, multiculturalism, feminism, globalization, deindustrialization – which were radically changing the way…
Telling Histories
The field of black women's history gained recognition as a legitimate field of study only late in the twentieth century. Collecting stories that are both deeply personal and powerfully political, this book compiles seventeen personal narratives by leading black women historians at various stages in their careers. The authors of these narratives illuminate how—first as graduate students and then as professional historians—they entered and navigate…
Matter out of Place
Yes’, There is a Black Atlantic
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To 'Joy My Freedom
Journal Article To Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War. By Tera W. Hunter. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. x, 311 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-89309-3) Get access Deborah Gray White Deborah Gray White Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 1, June 1998, Pages 290–291, https://d…
Half Sisters of History
Female Slaves
Dual Heroisms and Double Burdens
Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, Dual Heroisms and Double Burdens: Interpreting Afro-American Women's Experience and History, Feminist Studies, Vol. 15, No. 3, Feminist Reinterpretations/Reinterpretations of Feminism (Autumn, 1989), pp. 573-590
Ar'n't I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South
Black Women and White Men in the Antebellum South
Resurrecting a Historian
Mining the Forgotten
Journal Article Mining the Forgotten: Manuscript Sources for Black Women's History Get access Deborah Gray White Deborah Gray White associate professor of history Rutgers University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 1, June 1987, Pages 237–242, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908622 Published: 01 June 1987
Ar'n't I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South
Living with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed roles within the family and community that contrasted sharply with traditional female roles in the larger American society. This new edition of Ar'n't I a Woman? reviews and updates the scholarship on slave women and the slave family, exploring new ways of understanding the intersection of race and gender and comparing the myths that stereotyped female …
Ar'n't I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South
Journal Article Ar'n 'tla Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South. By Deborah Gray White. (New York: Norton, 1985. 216 pp. $18.95.) Get access Juliet E. K. Walker Juliet E. K. Walker University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 3, December 1986, Pages 754–755, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903026 Published: 01 December 1986
Ar'n't I A Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South
Female Slaves
This paper analyzes female slave life in the context of female slave interaction and familial roles. It looks at the bonded woman's work, her control of particular resources, her contribution to slave households, and her ability to cooperate with other women on a daily basis. It suggests that in relation to the slave family, too much emphasis has been placed on what men could not do rather than on what women could do and did. It finds that the bo…
Ar'n't I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South
Living with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed roles within the family and community that contrasted sharply with traditional female roles in the larger American society. This new edition of Ar'n't I a Woman? reviews and updates the scholarship on slave women and the slave family, exploring new ways of understanding the intersection of race and gender and comparing the myths that stereotyped female …
Ar'n't I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South
Ar'n't I A Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South
Mining the Forgotten
Journal Article Mining the Forgotten: Manuscript Sources for Black Women's History Get access Deborah Gray White Deborah Gray White associate professor of history Rutgers University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 1, June 1987, Pages 237–242, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908622 Published: 01 June 1987
Female Slaves
This paper analyzes female slave life in the context of female slave interaction and familial roles. It looks at the bonded woman's work, her control of particular resources, her contribution to slave households, and her ability to cooperate with other women on a daily basis. It suggests that in relation to the slave family, too much emphasis has been placed on what men could not do rather than on what women could do and did. It finds that the bo…
Dual Heroisms and Double Burdens
Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, Dual Heroisms and Double Burdens: Interpreting Afro-American Women's Experience and History, Feminist Studies, Vol. 15, No. 3, Feminist Reinterpretations/Reinterpretations of Feminism (Autumn, 1989), pp. 573-590
To 'Joy My Freedom
Journal Article To Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War. By Tera W. Hunter. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. x, 311 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-89309-3) Get access Deborah Gray White Deborah Gray White Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 1, June 1998, Pages 290–291, https://d…
Matter out of Place
Resurrecting a Historian
Ar'n't I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South
Journal Article Ar'n 'tla Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South. By Deborah Gray White. (New York: Norton, 1985. 216 pp. $18.95.) Get access Juliet E. K. Walker Juliet E. K. Walker University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 3, December 1986, Pages 754–755, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903026 Published: 01 December 1986
Female Slaves
This paper analyzes female slave life in the context of female slave interaction and familial roles. It looks at the bonded woman's work, her control of particular resources, her contribution to slave households, and her ability to cooperate with other women on a daily basis. It suggests that in relation to the slave family, too much emphasis has been placed on what men could not do rather than on what women could do and did. It finds that the bo…
Ar'n't I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South
Living with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed roles within the family and community that contrasted sharply with traditional female roles in the larger American society. This new edition of Ar'n't I a Woman? reviews and updates the scholarship on slave women and the slave family, exploring new ways of understanding the intersection of race and gender and comparing the myths that stereotyped female …
Ar'n't I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South
Journal Article Ar'n 'tla Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South. By Deborah Gray White. (New York: Norton, 1985. 216 pp. $18.95.) Get access Juliet E. K. Walker Juliet E. K. Walker University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 3, December 1986, Pages 754–755, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903026 Published: 01 December 1986
Ar'n't I A Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South
Black Women and White Men in the Antebellum South
Resurrecting a Historian
Mining the Forgotten
Journal Article Mining the Forgotten: Manuscript Sources for Black Women's History Get access Deborah Gray White Deborah Gray White associate professor of history Rutgers University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 1, June 1987, Pages 237–242, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908622 Published: 01 June 1987
Ar'n't I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South
Dual Heroisms and Double Burdens
Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, Dual Heroisms and Double Burdens: Interpreting Afro-American Women's Experience and History, Feminist Studies, Vol. 15, No. 3, Feminist Reinterpretations/Reinterpretations of Feminism (Autumn, 1989), pp. 573-590
Half Sisters of History
Female Slaves
To 'Joy My Freedom
Journal Article To Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War. By Tera W. Hunter. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. x, 311 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-89309-3) Get access Deborah Gray White Deborah Gray White Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 1, June 1998, Pages 290–291, https://d…
Yes’, There is a Black Atlantic
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Matter out of Place
Telling Histories
The field of black women's history gained recognition as a legitimate field of study only late in the twentieth century. Collecting stories that are both deeply personal and powerfully political, this book compiles seventeen personal narratives by leading black women historians at various stages in their careers. The authors of these narratives illuminate how—first as graduate students and then as professional historians—they entered and navigate…
Lost in the USA
“Lost in the USA: American Identity from the Promise Keepers to the Million Mom March” is a book about Americans’ search for personal tranquility at the turn of the twenty-first century. It argues that beneath the surface of prosperity and peace, ordinary Americans were struggling to adjust and adapt to the forces of postmodernity – immigration, multiculturalism, feminism, globalization, deindustrialization – which were radically changing the way…
Remembering Dr. Rosalyn Terborg-Penn
Previous article FreeIn MemoriamRemembering Dr. Rosalyn Terborg-Penn: Scholar, Activist, FriendPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMorePero Gaglo DagbovieMichigan State UniversityFollowing a tradition established by our self-sacrificing founding editor, Carter G. Woodson, The Journal of African American History (JAAH) habitually publish…
Guns and Motherhood
Maternalism has sparked controversy from left to right, and the Million Mom March held true to this tradition. While building on a rich history of maternalist activism, the march also triggered age-old conflicts about the definition of good and bad domesticity, proving that at the turn of the new millennium, postmodernity had not changed things. As powerful as the feminist critique was, it was drowned out by pro-gun advocates. But against the Mil…
On Black Women, Memory, and History
This article introduces my mother and maternal grandmother into the American story. I bring together sources like the census and family bible, documented history, and my memory to demonstrate that genealogy and family history expand the archive on black women and the black family. I also reflect on the way history and memory are dichotomized and argue that autobiography/memoir holds a key to freeing black women’s history from the violence of the …
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