A Black Woman's Journey from Cotton Picking to College Professor: Lessons about Race, Class, and Gender in America

ISBN-13: 9781433149740 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 272 str.

Menah Pratt-Clarke

Opis

A Black Woman's Journey follows Mildred Sirls as a young Black girl in rural east Texas in the 1930s who picked cotton to help her family survive, to her adulthood years as Dr. Mildred Pratt who influenced hundreds of students and empowered a community.

Recenzje

"A Black Woman's Journey from Cotton Picking to College Professor is a wonderful and special journey. I encourage others to explore this amazing life story. I'm sure they will enjoy it as much as I did."-Nikki Giovanni, University Distinguished Professor of English, Virginia Tech

Spis treści

List of Illustrations - James D. Anderson: Foreword - Acknowledgments -Stephanie Shaw/Menah Pratt-Clarke: Introduction - The Critical Black Feminist Autobiography - Starting After Slavery - Surviving the Great Depression - Segregated and Sharecropping - Black Girlhood - A New Beginning - Pittsburgh and the PhD - Normal University Racism - Black History Project - A Legacy - Travel, Trials, and Triumph - Appendix A: Theodore Pratt's Curriculum Vitae - Appendix B: Mildred Pratt's Curriculum Vitae - Index.

O autorze

Menah Pratt-Clarke is Vice President for Strategic Affairs, Vice Provost for Inclusion and Diversity, and Professor of Education at Virginia Tech. She has a law degree and PhD from Vanderbilt University. Her prior works include Critical Race Feminism and Education: A Social Justice Model, Journeys of Social Justice: Women of Color Presidents in the Academy, and Reflections about Race, Gender, and Culture in Cuba.