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oapen-20.500.12657-768722023-10-20T02:11:31Z Half in Shadow Benjamin, Shanna Greene Nellie Y. McKay Nell Irvin Painter Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Toni Morrison Zora Neale Hurston Norton Anthology of African American Literature African American biography feminist memoir African American women--higher education Queens College SEEK program Black women and the archives Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Black studies at Harvard Darwin Turner and early black critics Black students at Harvard pioneers of Black feminist thought African American women--careers and professions African Americans--correspondence African Americans--intellectual life and history African American literature Black Studies in the Midwest Black Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison student bic Book Industry Communication::B Biography & True Stories::BG Biography: general::BGL Biography: literary bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFS Social groups::JFSL Ethnic studies::JFSL3 Black & Asian studies bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFS Social groups::JFSJ Gender studies, gender groups::JFSJ1 Gender studies: women Nellie Y. McKay (1930–2006) was a pivotal figure in contemporary American letters. The author of several books, McKay is best known for coediting the canon-making with Henry Louis Gates Jr., which helped secure a place for the scholarly study of Black writing that had been ignored by white academia. However, there is more to McKay's life and legacy than her literary scholarship. After her passing, new details about McKay's life emerged, surprising everyone who knew her. Why did McKay choose to hide so many details of her past? Shanna Greene Benjamin examines McKay's path through the professoriate to learn about the strategies, sacrifices, and successes of contemporary Black women in the American academy. Benjamin shows that McKay's secrecy was a necessary tactic that a Black, working-class woman had to employ to succeed in the white-dominated space of the American English department. Using extensive archives and personal correspondence, Benjamin brings together McKay’s private life and public work to expand how we think about Black literary history and the place of Black women in American culture. 2023-10-19T07:43:46Z 2023-10-19T07:43:46Z 2021 book ONIX_20231019_9798890859693_11 9798890859693 9781469662534 9781469661902 9781469661889 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76872 eng application/pdf application/epub+zip Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9798890859693.pdf 9781469661902.epub https://www.uncpress.org/book/9781469662534/half-in-shadow/ The University of North Carolina Press The University of North Carolina Press 10.5149/9781469661902_Benjamin 10.5149/9781469661902_Benjamin 165ebb72-a81f-4229-898c-5f49a35f306e 0314e571-4102-4526-b014-3ed8f2d6750a 9798890859693 9781469662534 9781469661902 9781469661889 The University of North Carolina Press 280 Chapel Hill [...] National Endowment for the Humanities NEH open access
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Nellie Y. McKay (1930–2006) was a pivotal figure in contemporary American letters. The author of several books, McKay is best known for coediting the canon-making with Henry Louis Gates Jr., which helped secure a place for the scholarly study of Black writing that had been ignored by white academia. However, there is more to McKay's life and legacy than her literary scholarship. After her passing, new details about McKay's life emerged, surprising everyone who knew her. Why did McKay choose to hide so many details of her past? Shanna Greene Benjamin examines McKay's path through the professoriate to learn about the strategies, sacrifices, and successes of contemporary Black women in the American academy. Benjamin shows that McKay's secrecy was a necessary tactic that a Black, working-class woman had to employ to succeed in the white-dominated space of the American English department. Using extensive archives and personal correspondence, Benjamin brings together McKay’s private life and public work to expand how we think about Black literary history and the place of Black women in American culture.
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