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Stepping Forward (Ohio University Press, 2002) A unique and important study,\u00a0Stepping Forward<\/em>\u00a0examines the experiences of nineteenth- and twentieth-century black women in Africa and African diaspora communities from a variety of perspectives in a number of different settings.<\/p>\n This wide-ranging collection designed for classroom use explores the broad themes that have shaped black women’s goals, options, and responses: religion, education, political activism, migration, and cultural transformation. Essays by leading scholars in the field examine the lives of black women in the United States and the Caribbean Basin; in the white settler societies of Kenya, Zimbabwe, and South Africa; and in the black settler societies of Liberia and Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n Among the contributors to this volume are historians, political scientists, and scholars of literature, music, and law. What emerges from their work is an image of black women’s agency, self-reliance, and resiliency. Despite cultural differences and geographical variations, black women have provided foundations on which black communities have not only survived, but also thrived.\u00a0Stepping Forward<\/em>\u00a0is a valuable addition to our understanding of women’s roles in these diverse communities.<\/p>\n (Description Source: Ohio University Press<\/a>) Catherine Higgs<\/strong> is a professor of History in the Department of History and Sociology at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus. She earned her PhD in modern African history at Yale University. Her scholarship has focused on the intersections of religion, politics, labour, and activism; her approach is interdisciplinary and transnational. She is the author of The Ghost of Equality: The Public Lives of D. D. T. Jabavu of South Africa, 1885-1959<\/em> (Ohio University Press, 1997), and Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery and Colonial Africa<\/em> (Ohio University Press, 2012). She is co-editor of Stepping Forward: Black Women in Africa and the Americas <\/em>(Ohio University Press, 2002), and In India and East Africa\/E-Indiya Nase East Africa: A Travelogue in IsiXhosa and English <\/em>(University of the Witwatersrand Press, 2020). She is completing a book about the anti-apartheid activism of Catholic sisters in South Africa, which considers whether and how small actions can shift national policy.<\/p>\n Her research has been funded by the National Humanities Center, the American Philosophical Society, the Luso-American Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.<\/p>\n Before joining the University of British Columbia, she taught at the University of Tennessee, the University of Nebraska at Kearney, and at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. She teaches about Africa, Southern Africa, and the Atlantic World; newer courses focus on commodities, markets, labour and public policy, including China\u2019s investment in Africa.<\/p>\n Barbara A. Moss<\/b> is an assistant professor of history at Clark Atlanta University in Georgia.<\/p>\n Earline Rae Ferguson<\/b> is an assistant professor of history at the University of Rhode Island.<\/p>\n http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yxr7ky7a<\/a><\/p>\n From the Publisher – Ohio University Press<\/a><\/span> Paper ISBN:\u00a09780821414569<\/span>\u00a0<\/span> The University of British Columbia Okanagan Classroom Artwork Project<\/em> aims to display academically inspiring artwork in classrooms and other teaching areas of the university.<\/span><\/p>\n Artwork displayed as part of this project \u2013 including the covers of books and journals containing work written or edited by UBCO scholars and researchers \u2013 is intended to help enliven university teaching spaces, educate classroom users about the connections between research and teaching, and introduce members of the broader public to some of the research and scholarship carried out at UBCO.<\/span><\/p>\n
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