Telling Histories Quotes

“Largely excluded from the white masculine political sphere, black male scholars established intellectual organizations where they could not only distance themselves from women but also perform a masculinity parallel to that established by white male scholars.”
― Deborah Gray White, Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower

“In Ghana, the pressing issues were economic, questions related to development and how it worked out in a political arena where all the players were black. (As I write “black” again, I need to acknowledge how meaningless the American term is in a West African context where so very much besides race matters—every day and fundamentally.)”
― Deborah Gray White, Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower