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“Professor Kristin Waters Wins Book Award”

Black Women’s Intellectual Traditions: Speaking Their Minds, co-edited by Kristen Waters and Carol B. Conaway, has been awarded The Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize by the Association of Black Women Historians for the best anthology about African American women's history for 2007.

"Provocative revelations about the flourishing black women’s intellectual
traditions in nineteenth-century America.

An astonishing wealth of literary and intellectual work by nineteenth-century
black women is being rediscovered and restored to print in scholarly and
popular editions. In Kristin Waters’s and Carol B. Conaway’s landmark edited
collection, Black Women’s Intellectual Traditions: Speaking Their Minds,
sophisticated commentary on this rich body of work chronicles a powerful and
interwoven legacy of activism based in social and political theories that helped
shape the history of North America.

The book meticulously reclaims this American legacy, providing a collection of
critical analyses of the primary sources and their vital traditions. Written by
leading scholars, Black Women’s Intellectual Traditions is particularly powerful in its exploration of the pioneering thought and action of the nineteenth-century black woman lecturer and essayist Maria W. Stewart, abolitionist Sojourner Truth, novelist and poet Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, educator Anna Julia Cooper, newspaper editor Mary Ann Shadd Cary, and activist Ida B. Wells.

The distinguished contributors are Hazel V. Carby, Patricia Hill Collins, Karen Baker-Fletcher, Kristin
Waters, R. Dianne Bartlow, Carol B. Conaway, Olga Idriss Davis, Vanessa Holford Diana, Evelyn Simien, Janice W. Fernheimer, Michelle N. Garfield, Joy James, Valerie Palmer-Mehta, Carla L. Peterson, Marilyn Richardson, Evelyn M. Simien, Ebony A. Utley, Mary Helen Washington, Melina Abdullah, and Lena Ampadu. The volume will interest scholars and readers of African-American and women’s studies, history, rhetoric, literature, poetry, sociology, political science, and philosophy.

'A remarkable and invaluable anthology... I read with pleasure the splendid analyses of black women’s activism and the thought-provoking interpretations of their textured voices in slave narratives, speeches, religious sermons, letters, and expressive productions.'—Darlene Clark Hine, Board of Trustees Professor of African American Studies and Professor of History, Northwestern University" *

* (quoted text taken from http://www.upne.com/1-58465-633-6.html)

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KRISTIN WATERS is Professor of Philosophy at Worcester State College and editor of Women and Men Political Theorists: Enlightened Conversations (2000). CAROL B. CONAWAY is Assistant Professor of Communications at the University of New Hampshire, and an expert on the press and race relations.