Audrey Thomas McCluskey is an American writer and professor emeriti. She is an alumna of Indiana University where she was an African-American and African Diaspora Studies professor.[1]
She received a B.A. magna cum laude from Clark Atlanta University, an M.A. in African Studies, from Howard University, and a Ph.D. in Historical and Comparative Education from Indiana University.[1]
She wrote the book Forgotten Sisterhood about four influential female African American educators in the South.[2] She was interviewed by a National Park Service Ranger about her research and books on Mary McLeod Bethune.[3] She edited a book of interviews with South African filmmakers.[4] She has also written articles and book reviews.[5]
She was a panelist in the City of Bloomington, Indiana's "Women of Color in the Workplace" Roundtable Discussion. She was a guest on WFHB's "Bring It On". She spoke about her book Imaging Blackness: Race and Racial Representation in Film Poster Art at the NMBCC Library's 10th annual Library Evening Extravanza.[6] She reviewed Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954: An Intellectual History by Stephanie Y. Evans.[7]
Writings
edit- “Mary McLeod Bethune and the Education of Black Girls in the South, 1904–1923”, Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University (1991)
- Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World, Essays and selected documents co-edited with Elaine M. Smith Indiana University Press (1999)[8][9]
- Imaging Blackness: Race And Racial Representation in Film Poster Art (2007)
- Richard Pryor: The Life and Legend of a ‘Crazy’ Black Man (2008)
- The Devil You Dance With; Film Culture in the New South Africa, editor and introduction, University of Illinois Press (2010)[4][10][11]
- A Forgotten Sisterhood; Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South (2014)[12][13]
Articles
edit- "Ringing Up a School: Mary McLeod Bethune's Impact on Daytona" Florida Historical Quarterly (1994)[14]
- "We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible": Black Women School Founders and Their Mission" Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and SocietyVolume 22, Number 2
References
edit- ^ a b "Audrey McCluskey". African American and African Diaspora Studies.
- ^ Pethel, Mary Ellen (March 30, 2016). "A Forgotten Sisterhood: Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South by Audrey Thomas McCluskey (review)". Journal of Southern History. 82 (1): 190–191. doi:10.1353/soh.2016.0070. S2CID 159610628 – via Project MUSE.
- ^ "Mary McLeod Bethune and her Network of Women Activists - Part One". www.nps.gov. March 24, 2021.
- ^ a b McCluskey, Audrey. "UI Press | Edited and with an Introduction by Audrey Thomas McCluskey | The Devil You Dance With". www.press.uillinois.edu.
- ^ "Audrey MCCLUSKEY | Ph D | Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana | IUB | Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies | Research profile".
- ^ https://aaads.indiana.edu/documents/newsletters/AprilMay07.pdf
- ^ "McCluskey on Evans, 'Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954: An Intellectual History' | H-SAWH | H-Net". networks.h-net.org.
- ^ Cognard-Black, Jennifer (2002). "Reviewed work: Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World, Audrey Thomas McCluskey, Elaine M. Smith; Breaking the Ice: The Story of Mary Ann Shadd, Sylvia Sweeney". NWSA Journal. 14 (2): 207–211. JSTOR 4316907.
- ^ "Florida Memory • In Her Own Words: Remarkable Women in 20th-Century Florida".
- ^ McCluskey, Audrey (18 March 2009). The Devil You Dance with: Film Culture in the New South Africa. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252033865.
- ^ "The Devil You Dance with: Film Culture in the New South Africa".
- ^ McCluskey, Audrey Thomas (30 October 2014). A Forgotten Sisterhood: Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781442211407.
- ^ Williams, Doretha K. (2016). "A Forgotten Sisterhood: Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South by Audrey Thomas McCluskey (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2014. 181 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-1-4422-1138-4.)". Journal of Hate Studies. 13: 199–201. doi:10.33972/jhs.143.
- ^ McCluskey, Audrey (March 15, 2022). "Ringing Up A School: Mary McLeod Bethune's Impact on Daytona". Florida Historical Quarterly. 73 (2).