Interview: White, Deborah Gray, 2016
Item
- Resource class
- Interview
- Title
- Interview: White, Deborah Gray, 2016
- Type
- Interview
- Interviewee
- White, Deborah Gray
- Birth Year
- 1949
- Birth Place
- New York City, New York
- Interviewer
- Durant, Kai
- Jihad, Aiyana
- Location Created
- New Brunswick, New Jersey
- Date Created
- 9 November 2016
- Abstract
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Deborah Gray White is the Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History and Professor of History at Rutgers University. During her forty years at Rutgers, she has not only been a professor but also the co-director of "The Black Atlantic: Race, Nation and Gender" project at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis (1997-99), a research professor at the Rutgers Institute for Research on Women (1999-2000), and chair of the history department (2000-03). As an Americanist who specializes in African American and American Women’s history, Professor White is especially interested in issues of identity and the intersection of race, class, gender, and sexuality.
In this interview, Dr. White begins by talking about the influential women in her childhood. Then the interview transitions to her work as a historian and what her title at Rutgers means. She also discusses her work directing a major institutional research project that uncovered the history of enslaved and disenfranchised populations in Rutgers history. The project resulted in the publication of the book Scarlet and Black: Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History. The interview ends with her advice for young Black women on how to obtain the type of success Dr. White has achieved. - Source Project Description
- This interview was conducted by IWL Leadership Scholars as part of an ongoing intergenerational interview program at the Institute for Women's Leadership. Since the inception of the Leadership Scholars Certificate Program in the fall of 1999, students have conducted annual interviews with outstanding women leaders. Select transcripts from the collection are accessible on the IWL website.
- Collection
- Women's Leadership Interview Archives
- Repository
- Institute for Women's Leadership (IWL), Rutgers University–New Brunswick
- Rights
- For permission to use interview excerpts from the Women's Leadership Interview Archive, contact the Institute for Women's Leadership at Rutgers University–New Brunswick at info@iwl.rutgers.edu.
- Related Resource
- Women's Leadership Interview Archives
- IWL Leadership Scholars
- Deborah Gray White (Wikipedia)
- Subject
- Institute for Women's Leadership (Rutgers)
- Rutgers Faculty
- Rutgers University-New Brunswick
- Professors
- Women's Leadership
- Writers and Poets
- Scarlet and Black Project (Rutgers)
- Sports
- Identifier
- IWL-White
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