DEBORAH G. WHITE

Deborah Gray White

Table of Contents

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Introduction

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About Deborah G. White

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Mrs. White's view on the Rutgers University

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Mrs. White's view on the women slavery

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Conclusion

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Deborah Gray White

Introduction

Historian Deborah Gray White is known for her contribution on various humanities topics like class, gender, race and sexuality in American. Mrs. Whites doctoral dissertation “Ar'n't I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South", which was published in 1985 and after twenty years, her work was recognized as a path breaking history of slave women in the south. On July 2007, at the Berkshire Conference, her work was presented the honor for best book on women slaves and their struggle for survival. Her recently published books “Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower”, consist of autobiographical essay on the seventeen living famous black women historian, including White herself. In it, she came up with the notion of racial cliff among the African American in the west, which aim to help the black communities to achieve their objectives.

Mrs. White is currently appointed as a board of governor professor of history at the Rutgers University. She also received a many fellowships program from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Wisgton D.C, the American Council of learned Societies (A.C.L.S), the American Association of University Women (A.A.U.W), and the National Research Council. She is currently written a new book, which focuses on the mass marches conduct in last one century, and from there, she is going to link that issue with African American women slavery. Apart from her professional life, Mrs. Whites also published her articles in number of famous journals like the “Journal of American History”, “Journal of African American Journal” and “Journal of Caribbean Studies”, many others. Mrs. Whites nature toward her subject is such that she appreciate each and everyone which make a contribution on her favorite subject, Tara W. Hunter's book “Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War” warm welcome by Mrs. White. Her ambition to make the Rutgers University heart of the African American history, where student wants to be enroll and continue their further studies at the Rutger University.

About Deborah G. White

Deborah Gray White is currently appointed as a Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University in New Jersey, which is rank among the largest public research university in United State. Before joining the Rutgers University, she was working at University of Wisconsin, as an instructor, where she was promoted to assistant professor in 1978. In 1984, she joins the Rutgers and also in the same year, she was promoted to associate professor and finally in 1994, she accepted the position at the history department in the Rutgers University.

At Rutgers, she was not only working there as a teacher, but as a co director of a project “The Black Atlantic: Race, Nation and Gender” at the Rutgers center for Historical Analysis from 1997 to 1999. She was leading as research professor at "the Institute for research ...