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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]

Life and career[edit]

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]

Works[edit]

  • The Ambidexter Philosopher: Thomas Jefferson in Free Black Thought, 1776-1877 (forthcoming)
  • Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021.[8]
  • Race and Retail: Consumption across the Color Line. Rutgers Studies on Race and Ethnicity, 2015. (Editor, Contributor).[9]
  • Freedom on My Mind: A History of African Americans, with Documents. Co-authored with Deborah Gray White and Waldo Martin, Bedford Books, St. Martin’s, 2012.[10]
  • To Tell the Truth Freely: the Life of Ida B. Wells. Hill & Wang, 2009.[11][12][13][14][15][16]
  • The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas About White People 1830-1925. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.[17]

References[edit]

  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.

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