The Northeast Popular Culture Association is proud to honor Beyond Norma Rae with the 2023 Peter C. Rollins Book Prize. Accessible in style yet rigorous in scope, this book reimagines the history behind the 1979 film Norma Rae and restores the diverse women’s voices…
Presented as part of this roundtable at the American Studies Association in Montreal.
Presenting as part of this roundtable at the Urban History Association in Pittsburgh.
Virtual paper presentation about the importance of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for African American women’s labor organizing in the 1960s and 1970s for Historians of the Twentieth Century United States (HOTCUS) Conference in England.
Paper presentation about union organizing by Puerto Rican and southern African American women in the 1960s to 1970s for the Law, Culture and the Humanities Conference in Toronto.
By the time I was in a history PhD program as a middle-aged woman, I knew I had the chops to do the academics. Writing and teaching were central to my work, and I had published general articles and literary short fiction that had…