Black Women’s History
Series Editors: Talitha L. LeFlouria, Ashley D. Farmer, and Daina Ramey Berry
The field of Black women’s history is experiencing a renaissance. Scholars from all over the world are publishing exciting and award-winning work on women of African descent both in the US and abroad across time periods, themes, and historical moments. The academy recognizes the uniqueness of Black women’s history, and multiple publics are expressing a deep interest in learning more about enslaved, incarcerated, and free Black women in all time periods as citizens, activists, and thinkers.
After decades in which Black women historians have built a body of masterworks, including novel methods, and a network of connections and institutional frameworks, a moment of unprecedented interest in Black women’s history has arrived – this series will capture this moment by curating and publishing works that advance the field and celebrate Black women’s history.
Black Women’s History draws on the research and teaching of generations of scholars who have developed the distinctive theories and methods that have made Black women’s history a robust field. Works in this series reflect and build upon the archives, approaches, and themes elucidated by classic and cutting-edge scholarship to push the field in new directions. In a moment that demands a reckoning with the past and the tools historians use to recount it, the Black Women’s History series meets this challenge and transforms how historians and popular audiences understand the world today.
To help develop works in progress on Black women’s history, we will hold an incubator once a year. Applicants will be able to apply to participate in a manuscript workshop and receive feedback from series editors and other scholars. To find more information, or to apply, please follow this link.
Series Editors
Talitha L. LeFlouria is associate professor of history and fellow of the Mastin Gentry White Professorship in Southern History at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of the multi-award-winning Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South, the first history of Black, working-class incarcerated women in the post-Civil War period. She is currently finishing her second single-authored book, Searching for Jane Crow: Black Women and Mass Incarceration in America from the Auction Block to the Cell Block.
Ashley D. Farmer is associate professor of history and African & African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas-Austin. Her book, Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era is the first comprehensive study of Black women’s intellectual production and activism in the Black Power era. She is currently working on a biography of Queen Mother Audley Moore and is also a co-editor of New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition.
Daina Ramey Berry is Michael Douglas Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author or editor of six books, including The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation. Her most recent publication, A Black Women’s History of the United States, co-authored with Kali Nicole Gross, is an empowering testament to Black women’s ability to build communities in the face of oppression, and their continued resistance to systemic racism and sexism.
Editorial Advisory Board
Keisha Blain
Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Tanisha Ford
Shennette Garrett-Scott
Kali N. Gross
Sharon Harley
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Tera Hunter
Stephanie Jones-Rogers
Brenda Stevenson
Ula Taylor
UNC Press Sponsoring Editor
Dawn Durante, Wyndham Robertson Editorial Director
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Black Women’s History—Submission Guidelines
For consideration for the Black Women’s History series, please submit the following proposal materials to Dawn Durante via email:
- A cover letter with key details about the project and your interest in the series.
- The UNC Press Author and Manuscript Information Form.
- A proposal that provides a detailed description of the project, its intervention in the field, its shared commitments with the Black Women’s History series, an analysis of the competing or complementary books, the intended audience for the book, and details like the project’s length, completion timeline, and art program. The proposal should include an annotated table of contents that outlines each chapter and provides a paragraph-length description of the contents of each chapter.
- A CV or resume.
- Two polished sample chapters.