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Engaging Ideas: Dr. Ashley Farmer Online

Join us as historian Dr. Ashley Farmer discusses her research of Black Women's Intellectual History, including research strategies and primary source databases. Greenwich Library subscribes to ProQuest's Historical Black Newspaper Collection offering essential primary source content and editorial perspectives of the most distinguished African American newspapers in the U.S.

Date:
Wednesday, January 11, 2023
Time:
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Audience:
  Adult     Senior     Teens  
Categories:
  Author Talk     History and Genealogy     Lecture and Conversation  
Online:
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PROGRAM CONTACT

Rick Hansen

203-622-7948 

rhansen@greenwichlibrary.org

ABOUT

Dr. Ashley D. Farmer is a historian of Black women's history, intellectual history, and radical politics. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Departments of History and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her book, Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era (UNC Press, 2017), is the first comprehensive study of Black women's intellectual production and activism in the Black Power era. She is also the co-editor of New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition (NUP Press, 2018), an anthology that examines central themes within the Black intellectual tradition.

Her next book, Queen Mother Audley Moore: Mother of Black Nationalism (forthcoming from UNC Press) will be the first biography of one of the most influential yet understudied activists and thinkers of the 20th century. Farmer earned a BA from Spelman College, an MA in History, and a Ph.D. in African American Studies from Harvard University. Dr. Farmer lives in Austin, TX, and tweets from @drashleyfarmer.