Gender and Race: Together at Last?


	Gender and Race Introduction	9:47
	The Slavery Experience	10:04
	The Idea of Race as Nation	13:44
	The Future of Black Women's History	17:32
	Black Women Historians	16:25
	Black Women's Academic Experience	10:40
	Interaction Among Panelists	13:20
	Audience Question and Answer: Part One	21:13
	Audience Question and Answer: Part Two	18:30

	Audience Question and Answer: Part Two
	<b>Question: </b>I'm a graduate student at Rutgers…What I want to say is in response to Deborah Gray White and Nell Irvin Painter's comments, but it also applies to all of the panelists and all of the pioneers in this room…I teach at Umass Boston, which is a public school. I have students from all over the diaspora and all over the world. I assign…chapters and essays from many of you in the room. I assign them because they changed my life and they really transform the students' lives…and all of them say, "Thank God you gave us these books…from this point on, since I read this, I am going to be a different person…I am going to have hope for my life." For what it's worth, I hope that is some kind of a reward to all of you. It means so much to all of us that have benefited so much from the work that you paid such a price to do. I want to thank you. <br> <br> <b>Question: </b>I'm from Yale University…I wanted to address the question of progress and the disparity in where progress has actually taken place…The work that black women have done in the academy has completely transformed the scholarly world…Within these institutions…new departments exist where they didn't exist before…I have been at Yale fourteen years…at that time, there was a sense of transformation…I became the second black woman at Yale to have tenure…So in the context of all of that innovation and in the context of all those transformations, both curricular and in the student body…when I look at those moments fourteen years ago, from being one of two black women with tenure, today I am the only black woman at Yale who has tenure. <br> <br> <b>Question: </b>I'm the retired dean of the graduate school at Salem State College, a public institution in Massachusetts. I want to thank the panelists…I want to ask about the future. The landscape of academe, in general, is changing. There is a proliferation of adjunct, as opposed to full-time positions, tenure is threatened in many institutions. I would like the panel to comment on how this would affect the work and careers of young black women historians of the future? <br> <br> <b>Question: </b>As cochair of a group of alumni for the Committee on the Equality of Women at Harvard…What about the impact nationwide on the large body of undergraduates who are not majoring in Afro Am, black studies, or women's studies. How can we get an impact on general education requirements? <br> <br> <b>Question: </b>I'm a clinical psychologist and director of African American studies at Montclair State University in New Jersey…Drew Faust raised a question: I think the question was "Does history create the black matriarch such that in the 1960s, as Moynihan wrote, about the deterioration of the black families?" The concept of the black matriarch for me has lots of meanings from various perspectives…I'm curious to hear from the panelists what your ideas are about this image of the black matriarch? <br> <br> <b>Question: </b>I am a graduate of [Harvard] College and of the Afro Am department, and currently working on my doctorate at NYU Tisch School for the Arts in Performance Studies. Thank you so much…as someone who is in the field of theatre, film and television…I want the panelists to talk about the future of the scholarship, in terms of "bringing out" stories that, culturally, we tend to cover. It goes to the very first comment of diaspora, and different cultures and how women in general have different experiences, in terms of what they want aired, and what they want to keep closed. <br> <br>