Ruth Feldstein

Biographic Data

ID3742835
NAMERuth Feldstein
GIVEN NAMESRuth
FAMILY NAMEFeldstein
SIGNATUREFELDSTEIN R
AFFILIATIONSRutgers Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS26
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX3

  • Framing Finding Christa

    Ruth FeldsteinARTICLEFeminist Media Histories2025

    This essay considers Camille Billops and perhaps her most famous film, Finding Christa (1991), in relation to other Black women filmmakers. Like Billops, Alile Sharon Larkin, one of the first Black women associated with the filmmakers based at UCLA who became known as the LA Rebellion, and Ayoka Chenzira, a central figure in the independent film world based in New York in the 1970s and ’80s, made films in which motherhood, agency, and meanings of…

  • Motherhood in Black and White: Race and Sex in American Liberalism, 1930–1965

    Ruth FeldsteinBOOKMotherhood in Black and White2019

    The apron-clad, white, stay-at-home mother. Black bus boycotters in Montgomery, Alabama. Ruth Feldstein explains that these two enduring, yet very different, images of the 1950s did not run parallel merely by ironic coincidence, but were in fact intimately connected. What she calls "gender conservatism" and "racial liberalism" intersected in central, yet overlooked, ways in mid-twentieth-century American liberalism. Motherhood in Black and White …

  • Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora

    Ruth FeldsteinARTICLEJournal of American History2015Cited by: 9

  • How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement

    Ruth FeldsteinBOOKHow it feels to be free2013

    How It Feels to Be Free tells a story about black women entertainers and their relationships to the civil rights/black power movement. The book focuses on six performers: singer and film star Lena Horne; South African singer Miriam Makeba; pianist‐vocalist Nina Simone; jazz singer and actress Abbey Lincoln; and stage, film, and television actresses Diahann Carroll and Cicely Tyson. All six were more than “just” entertainers, all six took risks wh…

  • Screening Antiapartheid: Miriam Makeba, "Come Back, Africa," and the Transnational Circulation of Black Culture and Politics

    Ruth FeldsteinARTICLEFeminist Studies2013

    ScreeningAntiapartheid: Miriam Makeha, "Come Back, Africa," and the TransnationalCirculation ofBlack Cultureand Politics RuthFeldstein In May 1957, Lionel Rogosin, an award-winning independent film maker and white American, arrived in South Africa eager to make a political film. Eighteen months later, the result was Come Back, Africa, a feature-length film that combined a fictional narrative with orig inal documentary footage, and which Rogosin p…

  • The World Was On Fire: Black Women Entertainers and Transnational Activism in the 1950s

    Ruth FeldsteinARTICLEOAH Magazine of History2012Cited by: 3

    Years before Maya Angelou was a famous author, dancer, or poet laureate at Bill Clinton's 1993 presidential inauguration, she was a young black woman living in Manhattan and trying to build a name for herself in the entertainment industry (Figure 1). Looking back on those formative days, Angelou recalled one night in the late 1950s when she had some free time and was trying to figure out what to do. Jazz vocalist Abbey Lincoln was singing at a cl…

  • I Don't Trust You Anymore: Nina Simone, Culture, and Black Activism in the 1960s

    Ruth FeldsteinARTICLEJournal of American History2005Cited by: 12

    Journal Article “I Don't Trust You Anymore”: Nina Simone, Culture, and Black Activism in the 1960s Get access Ruth Feldstein Ruth Feldstein teaches history at Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 91, Issue 4, March 2005, Pages 1349–1379, https://doi.org/10.2307/3660176 Published: 01 March 2005

  • Motherhood in Black and White: Race and Sex in American Liberalism 1930-1965

    Lynne Curry, Ruth FeldsteinARTICLEThe American Historical Review2001

    The apron-clad, white, stay-at-home mother. Black bus boycotters in Montgomery, Alabama. Ruth Feldstein explains that these two enduring, yet very different, images of the 1950s did not run parallel merely by ironic coincidence, but were in fact intimately connected. What she calls conservatism and intersected in central, yet overlooked, ways in mid-twentieth-century American liberalism. Motherhood in Black and White analyzes the widespread assum…

  • Motherhood in Black and White: Race and Sex in American Liberalism, 1930-1965

    E Boris, Ruth FeldsteinARTICLEJournal of American History2001Cited by: 2

    Journal Article Motherhood in Black and White: Race and Sex in American Liberalism, 1930–1965. By Ruth Feldstein. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. xii, 241 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8014-3414-9. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8014-8438-3.) Get access Eileen Boris Eileen Boris University of CaliforniaSanta Barbara, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 3, De…