This program features the opening panel of an all-day conference focusing on African American women's history, and on the ways that the study of U.S. women's history has been shaped by the conjunction of gender and race questions.

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 Gender and Race Introduction9:47
 Dean Drew Gilpin Faust: The Slavery Experience10:04
 Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham: The Idea of Race as Nation13:44
 Darlene Clark Hine: The Future of Black Women's History17:32
 Nell Irvin Painter: Black Women Historians16:25
 Deborah Gray White: Black Women's Academic Experience10:40
 Interaction Among Panelists 13:20
 Audience Question and Answer: Part One21:13
 Audience Question and Answer: Part Two18:30

About the Conference


The "Gender, Race, and Rights in African American Women's History" conference marks the 60th anniversary of the Radcliffe Institute for Advance Study's Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.

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