A Mellon Grant Sponsored Series.
Dr. Sharon Harley, Associate Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, researches and teaches Black women’s labor history and racial and gender politics.
Among her many contributions, she recently published “African American Women and the Right to Vote” in Women and Suffrage (2018) and “I Don’t Pay Those Borders No Mind At All:” Audley E. Moore (“Queen “Mother Moore) – Grassroots Global Traveler and Activist: Reframing Black Nationalist/Pan-Africanist Engagement” in Women and Migrations (2018). Discussed in this conversation, is her journey into Black Studies, the importance of telling Black women’s history in relation to public but also underground economies, and the expansive future of the field. Episode 126