Mia Bay

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Mia Bay is an American historian and currently the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Chair in American History at the University of Pennsylvania. [1] She studies American and African-American intellectual and cultural history and is the author of, among others, The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas About White People 1830-1925 [2] and To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells. [3]

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Life and career

Bay earned her Ph.D. from Yale University in 1993 and is a professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania. [4] She has taught at Rutgers University where she also served as co-director of the Black Atlantic Seminar at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis [5] and is a member of the Organization of American Historians. [6] She was awarded the Bancroft Prize in 2022 for Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance. [7]

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References

  1. "Mia Bay | Department of History". www.history.upenn.edu. Retrieved March 23, 2018.
  2. results, search (February 10, 2000). The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925 (1st ed.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. ISBN   9780195132793.
  3. results, search (February 2, 2010). To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells (1st ed.). New York: Hill and Wang. ISBN   9780809016464.
  4. "Bay, Mia". history.rutgers.edu. Archived from the original on May 11, 2017. Retrieved June 30, 2017.
  5. "Mia Bay | Beyond Slavery | Feminist Sexual Ethics Project | Brandeis University | Brandeis University". www.brandeis.edu. Retrieved June 30, 2017.
  6. "Organization of American Historians: Mia Bay". www.oah.org. Retrieved June 30, 2017.
  7. Schuessler, Jennifer (March 16, 2022). "Histories of Travel Segregation and Chinese Migration Win Bancroft Prize". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved March 17, 2022.
  8. Szalai, Jennifer (March 24, 2021). "'Traveling Black,' a Look at the Civil Rights Movement in Motion". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved March 17, 2022.
  9. Kwate, Naa Oyo A.; Cadava, Geraldo L.; Parker, Traci; Kenny, Bridget; Heaton, John W.; Wu, Ellen D.; Bayouth, Neiset; Londoño, Johana; González, Erualdo R. (August 4, 2015). Bay, Professor Mia; Fabian, Professor Ann (eds.). Race and Retail: Consumption across the Color Line. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. ISBN   9780813571706.
  10. White, Deborah Gray; Bay, Mia; Martin, Waldo E. Jr. (December 14, 2012). Freedom on My Mind: A History of African Americans with Documents, Vol. 1: To 1885 (First ed.). New York: Bedford/St. Martin's. ISBN   9780312648831.
  11. Materson, Lisa G. (June 1, 2010). "Mia Bay . To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells . New York : Hill and Wang . 2009 . Pp. viii, 374. $35.00" . The American Historical Review. 115 (3): 852–853. doi:10.1086/ahr.115.3.852. ISSN   0002-8762 . Retrieved June 30, 2017.
  12. Jones, Jeannette Eileen (October 8, 2011). "To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells (review)" . American Studies. 50 (3): 183–184. doi:10.1353/ams.2009.0030. ISSN   2153-6856. S2CID   144886577 . Retrieved June 30, 2017.
  13. "Nonfiction Book Review: To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells by Mia Bay". Publishers Weekly. December 15, 2008. Retrieved June 30, 2017.
  14. "TO TELL THE TRUTH FREELY by Mia Bay | Kirkus Reviews". Kirkus Reviews. November 15, 2008. Retrieved June 30, 2017.
  15. E., Woodruff, Nan (May 1, 2011). "To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells". The Journal of Southern History. 77 (2). ISSN   0022-4642 . Retrieved June 30, 2017.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  16. Harper, Matt (2011). "Review". The Journal of African American History. 96 (3): 410–412. doi:10.5323/jafriamerhist.96.3.0410. JSTOR   10.5323/jafriamerhist.96.3.0410. S2CID   224838072.
  17. The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925 . Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. February 10, 2000. ISBN   9780195132793.