HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAULA J GIDDINGS

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"Professor Paula Giddings is the author of three books on the social and political history of Africanâ

“American women:When and Where I Enter: The Impact on Black Women on Race and Sex in America; 

In Search of Sisterhood: Delta Sigma Theta and the Challenge of the Black Sorority Movement;

The critically acclaimed biography of anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells, Ida: A Sword among Lions.

She is also the editor of Burning All Illusions, an anthology of articles on race published by The Nation magazine from 1867 to 2000. She is also a former book editor and journalist who has written extensively on international and national issues and has been published by the Washington Post, theNew York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Jeune Afrique (Paris), The Nation, and the journals Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism and Sage: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women, among other publications.

Before attaining the position of professor of Africana studies at Smith College, Professor Giddings had taught at Spelman College, where she was a United Negro Fund Distinguished Scholar; Douglass College/Rutgers University as the Laurie Chair in Women's Studies; and Princeton and Duke Universities.

Professor Giddings joined Smith College in 2001. She serves as the senior editor of Meridians, a peer-reviewed feminist, interdisciplinary journal, which goal is to provide a forum for the finest scholarship and creative work by and about women of color in U.S. and international contexts."

from Smith.edu

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