Mia Bay Explained

Mia Bay is an American historian and currently the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Chair in American History at the University of Pennsylvania.^[1] She studies American and African-American intellectual and cultural history and is the author of, among others, The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas About White People 1830-1925^[2] and To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells.^[3]

Life and career

Bay earned her Ph.D. from Yale University in 1993 and is a professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania.^[4] She has taught at Rutgers University where she also served as co-director of the Black Atlantic Seminar at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis^[5] and is a member of the Organization of American Historians.^[6] She was awarded the Bancroft Prize in 2022 for Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance.^[7]

Works

• The Ambidexter Philosopher: Thomas Jefferson in Free Black Thought, 1776-1877 (forthcoming)
• Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021.^[8]
• Race and Retail: Consumption across the Color Line. Rutgers Studies on Race and Ethnicity, 2015. (Editor, Contributor).^[9]
• Freedom on My Mind: A History of African Americans, with Documents. Co-authored with Deborah Gray White and Waldo Martin, Bedford Books, St. Martin’s, 2012.^[10]
• To Tell the Truth Freely: the Life of Ida B. Wells. Hill & Wang, 2009.^{[11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16]}
• The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas About White People 1830-1925. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.^[17]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Mia Bay Department of History. www.history.upenn.edu. en. 2018-03-23.
2. Book: results, search. The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925. 2000-02-10. Oxford University Press. 9780195132793. 1st. New York, NY. English. registration.
3. Book: results, search. To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells. 2010-02-02. Hill and Wang. 9780809016464. 1st. New York. English.
4. Web site: Bay, Mia. history.rutgers.edu. en. 2017-06-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20170511032609/http://history.rutgers.edu/faculty-directory/97-bay-mia. 2017-05-11. dead.
5. Web site: Mia Bay Beyond Slavery Feminist Sexual Ethics Project Brandeis University Brandeis University. www.brandeis.edu. en. 2017-06-30.
6. Web site: Organization of American Historians: Mia Bay. www.oah.org. en. 2017-06-30.
7. News: Schuessler . Jennifer . 2022-03-16 . Histories of Travel Segregation and Chinese Migration Win Bancroft Prize . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-03-17 . 0362-4331.
8. News: Szalai . Jennifer . 2021-03-24 . 'Traveling Black,' a Look at the Civil Rights Movement in Motion . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-03-17 . 0362-4331.
9. Book: Race and Retail: Consumption across the Color Line. Kwate. Naa Oyo A.. Cadava. Geraldo L.. Parker. Traci. Kenny. Bridget. Heaton. John W.. Wu. Ellen D.. Bayouth. Neiset. Londoño. Johana. González. Erualdo R.. 2015-08-04. Rutgers University Press. 9780813571706. Bay. Professor Mia. New Brunswick, NJ. English. Fabian. Professor Ann.
10. Book: Freedom on My Mind: A History of African Americans with Documents, Vol. 1: To 1885. White. Deborah Gray. Bay. Mia. Martin. Waldo E. Jr.. 2012-12-14. Bedford/St. Martin's. 9780312648831. First. New York. English.
11. Materson. Lisa G.. Mia Bay . To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells . New York : Hill and Wang . 2009 . Pp. viii, 374. $35.00.. The American Historical Review. 1 June 2010. 115. 3. 852–853. 10.1086/ahr.115.3.852. 30 June 2017. en. 0002-8762.
12. Jones. Jeannette Eileen. To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells (review). American Studies. 8 October 2011. 50. 3. 183–184. 10.1353/ams.2009.0030. 144886577. 30 June 2017. 2153-6856.
13. News: Nonfiction Book Review: To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells by Mia Bay. 30 June 2017. Publishers Weekly. December 15, 2008. en.
14. News: TO TELL THE TRUTH FREELY by Mia Bay Kirkus Reviews. 30 June 2017. Kirkus Reviews. November 15, 2008. en-us.
15. E.. Woodruff, Nan. To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells. The Journal of Southern History. 1 May 2011. 77. 2. 30 June 2017. en. 0022-4642.
16. Harper. Matt. Review. The Journal of African American History. 2011. 96. 3. 410–412. 10.5323/jafriamerhist.96.3.0410. 10.5323/jafriamerhist.96.3.0410. 224838072.
17. Book: The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925. 2000-02-10. Oxford University Press. 9780195132793. Oxford, New York. registration.