Toward an Intellectual Black Women’s History | Reading Group
Welcome back! We are opening our Trinity term card with an exciting discussion group around the intellectual histories of Black women. To do this, we invite you all to consider two texts, both by Professor Mia Bay who will be joining us next week for a greater discussion around the topic.

Mia Bay, ‘Looking Backward in Order to Go Forward: Black Women Historians and Black Women’s History’, in Deborah Gray White (ed.) Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008), pp. 182 – 199.

Mia Bay, ‘The Battle for Womanhood Is the Battle for Race: Black Women and Nineteenth Century Racial Thought’ in Mia Bay, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Martha Jones (eds.) Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015), pp. 75 – 92.

We do ask attendees to consider the chosen materials, however, we welcome anyone who is interested, regardless of the extent you have engaged with the materials. The discussion will be guided by your thoughts and opinions, however, we will also come prepared with prompts to spark conversation.
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Date: 2 May 2025, 13:00
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Speaker: Various Speakers
Organising department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Organiser: Holly Cooper (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: raceandresistance@torch.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Race & Resistance
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Holly Cooper