Audrey Thomas McCluskey

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Audrey Thomas McCluskey is an American writer and professor emeriti. She is an alumna of Indiana University where she was an African-American and African Diaspora Studies professor.[1]

She received a B.A. magna cum laude from Clark Atlanta University, an M.A. in African Studies, from Howard University, and a Ph.D. in Historical and Comparative Education from Indiana University.[1]

She wrote the book Forgotten Sisterhood about four influential female African American educators in the South.[2] She was interviewed by a National Park Service Ranger about her research and books on Mary McLeod Bethune.[3] She edited a book of interviews with South African filmmakers.[4] She has also written articles and book reviews.[5]

She was a panelist in the City of Bloomington, Indiana's "Women of Color in the Workplace" Roundtable Discussion. She was a guest on WFHB's "Bring It On". She spoke about her book Imaging Blackness: Race and Racial Representation in Film Poster Art at the NMBCC Library's 10th annual Library Evening Extravanza.[6] She reviewed Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954: An Intellectual History by Stephanie Y. Evans.[7]

Writings

  • “Mary McLeod Bethune and the Education of Black Girls in the South, 1904–1923”, Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University (1991)
  • Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World, Essays and selected documents co-edited with Elaine M. Smith Indiana University Press (1999)[8][9]
  • Imaging Blackness: Race And Racial Representation in Film Poster Art (2007)
  • Richard Pryor: The Life and Legend of a ‘Crazy’ Black Man (2008)
  • The Devil You Dance With; Film Culture in the New South Africa, editor and introduction, University of Illinois Press (2010)[4][10][11]
  • A Forgotten Sisterhood; Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South (2014)[12][13]

Articles

References

  1. ^ a b "Audrey McCluskey". African American and African Diaspora Studies.
  2. S2CID 159610628
    – via Project MUSE.
  3. ^ "Mary McLeod Bethune and her Network of Women Activists - Part One". www.nps.gov. March 24, 2021.
  4. ^ a b McCluskey, Audrey. "UI Press | Edited and with an Introduction by Audrey Thomas McCluskey | The Devil You Dance With". www.press.uillinois.edu.
  5. ^ "Audrey MCCLUSKEY | Ph D | Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana | IUB | Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies | Research profile".
  6. ^ https://aaads.indiana.edu/documents/newsletters/AprilMay07.pdf
  7. ^ "McCluskey on Evans, 'Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954: An Intellectual History' | H-SAWH | H-Net". networks.h-net.org.
  8. JSTOR 4316907
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  9. ^ "Florida Memory • In Her Own Words: Remarkable Women in 20th-Century Florida".
  10. ISBN 9780252033865
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  11. ^ https://www.bibliovault.org/BV.book.epl?ISBN=9780252075742
  12. ISBN 9781442211407
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  13. doi:10.33972/jhs.143
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  14. ^ McCluskey, Audrey (March 15, 2022). "Ringing Up A School: Mary McLeod Bethune's Impact on Daytona". Florida Historical Quarterly. 73 (2).
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