Evelyn brooks higginbotham biography of donald
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Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham-draft
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She has been a tenured faculty member at Harvard since 1993, and she chaired the Department of African and African Americans Studies from 2006-2013.
She is the founder and coordinator of that department’s Social Engagement Initiative, an innovative pedagogy that combines rigorous academic work with on-the-ground experience. Higginbotham became the National President of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History in January 2016. This organization was founded bygd Carter G. Woodson in 1915.
Higginbotham began her teaching career as a public school teacher in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and in Washington, DC, before moving to the university setting. She has also taught on the faculties of Dartmouth College, the University of Maryland, and the University of Pennsylvania. At the speci
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Notes from a Boy @ The Window
Kimberlè Crenshaw quote, from “Whose Story Is It Anyway?: Feminist and Anti-Racist Appropriations of Anita Hill,” in Toni Morrison’s Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power, 1992, p. 403. (http://azquotes.com).
In truth, I’ve considered the issue of intersectionality as a historian and writer since 1993, when I wrote my quantitative methods requirement-fulfilling paper, “The Dying of Black Women’s Children.” Except that, for me and for most of my colleagues, the term was barely in use. Matter of fact, in five and half years of graduate school and in my first three years after finishing the doctorate, I may have heard the term used only once or twice. It’s not like I didn’t think about the unique issues facing women of color — especially Black women — in the context of US history and African American history. Sometimes as a historian, how leading Black men and White women marginalized
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As a child growing up Washington, D.C., Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham met many prominent black Americans.
She was inspired by thinkers such as Carter G. Woodson, a journalist and historian often referred to as the “father of black history.” Woodson worked closely with Higginbotham’s father, Albert N. D. Brooks, the secretary-treasurer for the organization now known as the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.
Higginbotham, who earned a bachelor’s degree in history at UWM, grew into one of the country’s leading historians, honored earlier this month with a National Humanities Medal. A White House citation credited Higginbotham, “for illuminating the African-American journey. In her writings and edited volumes, Dr. Higginbotham has traced the course of African-American progress, and deepened our understanding of the American story.”
Higginbotham attended Howard University and the University of Rochester, but marriage brought her to UWM for her sophomore