Audrey Thomas McCluskey

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Audrey Thomas McCluskey is an American writer and professor emeriti. She is an alumna of Indiana University where she was an African-American and African Diaspora Studies professor. [1]

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She received a B.A. magna cum laude from Clark Atlanta University, an M.A. in African Studies, from Howard University, and a Ph.D. in Historical and Comparative Education from Indiana University. [1]

She wrote the book Forgotten Sisterhood about four influential female African American educators in the South. [2] She was interviewed by a National Park Service Ranger about her research and books on Mary McLeod Bethune. [3] She edited a book of interviews with South African filmmakers. [4] She has also written articles and book reviews. [5]

She was a panelist in the City of Bloomington, Indiana's "Women of Color in the Workplace" Roundtable Discussion. She was a guest on WFHB's "Bring It On". She spoke about her book Imaging Blackness: Race and Racial Representation in Film Poster Art at the NMBCC Library's 10th annual Library Evening Extravanza. [6] She reviewed Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954: An Intellectual History by Stephanie Y. Evans. [7]

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  1. 1 2 "Audrey McCluskey". African American and African Diaspora Studies.
  2. Pethel, Mary Ellen (March 30, 2016). "A Forgotten Sisterhood: Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South by Audrey Thomas McCluskey (review)" . Journal of Southern History. 82 (1): 190–191. doi:10.1353/soh.2016.0070. S2CID   159610628 via Project MUSE.
  3. "Mary McLeod Bethune and her Network of Women Activists - Part One". www.nps.gov. March 24, 2021.
  4. McCluskey, Audrey. "UI Press | Edited and with an Introduction by Audrey Thomas McCluskey | The Devil You Dance With". www.press.uillinois.edu.
  5. "Audrey MCCLUSKEY | Ph D | Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana | IUB | Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies | Research profile".
  6. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-07-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. "McCluskey on Evans, 'Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954: An Intellectual History' | H-SAWH | H-Net". networks.h-net.org.
  8. Cognard-Black, Jennifer (2002). "Reviewed work: Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World, Audrey Thomas McCluskey, Elaine M. Smith; Breaking the Ice: The Story of Mary Ann Shadd, Sylvia Sweeney". NWSA Journal. 14 (2): 207–211. JSTOR   4316907.
  9. "Florida Memory • In Her Own Words: Remarkable Women in 20th-Century Florida".
  10. Flanery, Patrick Denman (2010). "Reviewed Work(s): The Devil You Dance With: Film Culture in the New South Africa by Audrey Thomas McCluskey". African Arts . 43 (3): 93–94.
  11. McCluskey, Audrey Thomas (30 October 2014). A Forgotten Sisterhood: Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN   9781442211407.
  12. Williams, Doretha K. (2016). "A Forgotten Sisterhood: Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South by Audrey Thomas McCluskey (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2014. 181 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-1-4422-1138-4.)". Journal of Hate Studies. 13: 199–201. doi: 10.33972/jhs.143 .
  13. McCluskey, Audrey (March 15, 2022). "Ringing Up A School: Mary McLeod Bethune's Impact on Daytona". Florida Historical Quarterly. 73 (2).