Brenda Gayle Plummer Explained
Brenda Gayle Plummer (born 1946) is an American academic and historian whose areas of research are the history of Haiti and African-American history. She is the Merze Tate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.[1] [2]
Biography
Plummer was born in 1946.[3] She earned a Bachelor of Arts from Antioch College, a Master of Arts from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. from Cornell University.[4]
She has written and contributed to several books about the history of Haiti and African-American history in the United States.[5]
She was a 1999–2000 fellow of the National Humanities Center.[6] She was named the Merze Tate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2012.
Selected works
As author
- Haiti and the Great Powers, 1902-1915. Louisiana State University Press, 1988.
- Haiti and the United States: The Psychological Moment. University of Georgia Press, 1992.
- Rising Wind: Black Americans and Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960. University of North Carolina Press, 1996.[7]
- In Search of Power: African Americans in the Era of Decolonization, 1956–1974. Cambridge University Press, 2012.[8] [9]
As contributor
- "Making 'Brown Babies": Race and Gender after World War II'. Body and Nation: The Global Realm of U.S. Body Politics in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Emily S. Rosenberg and Shanon Fitzpatrick. Duke University Press, 2014.
As editor
- Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988. University of North Carolina Press, 2003.[10]
Further reading
- American Women Historians, 1700s–1990s: A Biographical Dictionary. United States: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996.
References
- Plummer . Brenda Gayle . 2014-01-01 . Race and Power around the World . The Journal of African American History . en . 99 . 1-2 . 123–126 . 10.5323/jafriamerhist.99.1-2.0123 . 1548-1867.
- Web site: Eight faculty named to WARF professorships . 2023-06-08 . University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- Web site: Plummer, Brenda Gayle . 2023-06-08 . Encyclopedia.
- Web site: 2017-05-16 . Plummer, Brenda Gayle . 2023-06-08 . Department of History . en-US.
- News: 1994-09-20 . UW profs praise peaceful landing . 18 . The Capital Times . 2023-06-08.
- Web site: Brenda Gayle Plummer, 1999–2000 . 2023-06-08 . National Humanities Center . en-US.
- Web site: Friedland on Plummer, 'Rising Wind: Black Americans and Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960' H-Diplo H-Net . 2023-06-08 . Humanities and Social Sciences Online.
- Book: Vinson, Robert Trent . Book Review of Brenda Gayle Plummer. In Search of Power: African Americans in the Era of Decolonization, 1956-1974.
- Vinson . Robert Trent . 2014 . Review of In Search of Power: African Americans in the Era of Decolonization, 1956—1974 . The American Historical Review . 119 . 3 . 828–830 . 0002-8762.
- Fisher . Christopher T. . 2003 . Review of Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988 . The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society . 101 . 1/2 . 203–205 . 0023-0243.
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