Mia Bay, Monday, 5:30pm - Guest Speaker for MMM - Kara Walker Cohort
Mia Bay will be speaking at 5:30pm, in CSB 110! Monday, Feb 27.
Everyone’s welcome!
She’ll be speaking about slaves who made art and also White peoples depictions of slaves.
Mia Bay (Yale University, Ph.D.) is a Professor of History at Rutgers University. The Associate Director of the Center for Race and Ethnicity since 2007, Bay became the Director of the CRE in 2011.
A 2010 Alphonse Fletcher Sr. Fellow, and 2009 National Humanities Fellow, Bay is currently completing a study of African-American views on Thomas Jefferson, and a book on the social history of segregated transportation. A scholarly consultant for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture's Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom: The Era of Segregation Inaugural Exhibition, Bay is also one of the leaders of the Black Women's Intellectual and Cultural History Collective (B-WHICH)--with Farah Jasmin Griffin and Columbia University, Barbara Savage at the University of Pennsylvania and Martha Jones at the University of Michigan--which will publish an edited volume entitled Towards an Intellectual History of Black Women in 2015.
Mia Bay's publications include the books Freedom on My Mind: A History of African Americans, with Documents (co-authored with Deborah Gray White and Waldo Martin, Bedford Books, St. Martins, 2012); To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells (New York: Hill & Wang, 2009) and The White Image in the Black Mind: African American Ideas About White People 1830-1925 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), as well as a variety of book chapters and articles. They includeL "From the 'Ladies Car' to the Colored Car: Black Female Travelers in the Segregated South" in The Culture of Jim Crow: Rethinking the Segregated South, Stephanie Cole and Natalie Ring, eds., Texas A&M Press, 2012; "Love, Sex, Slavery and Sally Hemmings," in Beyone Slavery: Overcoming its Sexual and Religious Legacy, edited by Bernardette Brooton (Palgrave, 2010); "Invisible Tethers: Transportation and Discrimination in the Age of Katrina," in Katrina's Imprint: Race and Vulnerability in America, Keith Wailoo, Karen O'Neill, Jeffrey Dowd, and Roland Anglin, eds. (Rutgers University Press, 2010); "'If Iola were a Man:' Gender, Jim Crow and Public Protest in the Work of Ida B. Wells," in Becoming Visible: Women's Presence in Late Nineteenth-Century America, Janet Floyd, Alison Easton, and R.J. Ellis (Rodopi, 2010); "Looking Backward in Order to Go Forward: Black Women Historians and Black Women's History," in Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower, Deborah Gray White, ed. (University of North Carolina Press, 2008); "In Search of Sally Hemings in the Post-DNA Era," in Reviews in American History 34:4 (December 2006); and "'See Your Declaration Americans!!' Abolitionism, Americanism, and the Revolutionary Tradition in Free Black Politics," inAmericanism: New Perspectives on the History of an Ideal, Michel Kazin and Joseph McCartin, eds. (University of North Carolina Press, 2006). In addition, Bay recently completed an edited collection of the work of Ida B. Wells entitled The Light of Truth: The Writings of Anti-Lynching Crusader, which was published by Penguin Books in January, 2015.