Mia Bay

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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

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

  • 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

  1. ^ "Mia Bay | Department of History". www.history.upenn.edu. Retrieved March 23, 2018.
  2. ISBN 9780195132793
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  3. ISBN 9780809016464
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  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. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved March 17, 2022.
  8. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved March 17, 2022.
  9. ISBN 9780813571706
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  10. ISBN 9780312648831
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  11. ISSN 0002-8762
    . Retrieved June 30, 2017.
  12. 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. ISSN 0022-4642. Retrieved June 30, 2017.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link
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  16. S2CID 224838072
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  17. ISBN 9780195132793
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