Goucher College’s Peace Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies programs are presenting “Interconnections: Gender and Race in American History” on Tuesday, October 16, at 4:30 p.m. in the Batza Room of the Athenaeum. The talk will be presented by Alison Parker, chair and professor of history at the State University of New York at Brockport.
This event is free and open to the public, and tickets are not required. For more information, contact the Goucher Box Office at boxoffice@goucher.edu or 410-337-6333.
Parker is the author of Articulating Rights: Nineteenth-Century American Women on Race, Reform, and the State and Purifying America: Women, Cultural Reform, and Pro-Censorship Activism, 1873-1933. She has published two co-edited volumes: Beyond Black and White: Race, Ethnicity and Gender in the U.S. South and Southwest and Women and the Unstable State in Nineteenth-Century America.
She is also co-editor of the forthcoming Interconnections: Gender and Race in American History and is the editor of the Gender and Race in American History book series for the University of Rochester Press. Parker has recently begun work on a biography of Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954), the first president of the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs and a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
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