| Profile: |
Christina Greene (Ph.D. Duke University, 1996) is a historian whose teaching and writing focuses on African American women's activism. Her research has appeared in Frontiers: Journal of Women's Studies and in an edited collection Hidden Histories of Women in the New South. She is currently finishing a book-length community study entitled "Our Separate Ways:" Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina, 1940-1970 and an essay on Black women and school desegregation in North Carolina which will appear in a commemorative collection marking the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision. |
Education: |
Ph.D. 1996, Duke University, Department of History
M.A. 1979, Sarah Lawrence College, Women's History Program
B.A.1977, City College of New York (CCNY/CUNY), Department of English, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa |
| Selected Publications: |
"'We'll Take Our Stand:’" Race, Class and Gender in the Southern Student Organizing Committee," in Hidden Histories of Women in the New South, eds. Elizabeth Berghardt, et al (University of Missouri, 1994)
"In the Best Interest of the Total Community?:" Women-in-Action and the Problems of Building an Interracial, Cross-Class Women's Alliance," in Frontiers: Journal of Women's Studies (1996) |
| Forthcoming Work: |
| "Our Separate Ways:" Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina, 1940-1970 |
| Teaching/Research Interests: |
African American Women's Activism
Women in the Civil Rights Movement |
