Deborah Gray White

Deborah Gray White is the Board of Governors Professor of History and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Rutgers.^[1] In addition to teaching at Rutgers, she also directed, "The Black Atlantic: Race, Nation and Gender", a project at The Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis from 1997-1999.^[2] Throughout 2000-2003 she was the chair of the history department at Rutgers.

Education and early career

White received her M.A. degree from Columbia University in 1973. While a doctoral student at the University of Illinois at Chicago she was hired as a history instructor at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. In 1978 Deborah was promoted to assistant professor. She held the position until she was promoted to associate professor in 1984. In 1984 she accepted a position in the history department of Rutgers.

Career

In 2012 White gave the keynote speech the 14th Annual Conference of the Graduate Association for African-American History at the University of Memphis. The conference invited scholars of African-American history from all over the US as well as internationally.^[3]

Publications

• Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower, ed. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming 2008)
• Too Heavy A Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994 (New York: W.W. Norton, 1999)^[4]
• Let My People Go: African American 1800-1865 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999)
• Ar’n’t I A Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South (New York: W.W. Norton, 1985, 1999 [2nd ed])^[5]

References

External links

• Deborah Gray White on the legacy of slavery PBS.org
• Searching the Silence:Finding Black Women’s Resistance to Slavery in Antebellum U.S.History