Center for Race and Ethnicity at Rutgers University
Mia Bay, Associate Director
History
Mia Bay (Yale University, PhD) is an Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University and co-director of the Black Atlantic Seminar at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis. Her research interests include African-American intellectual and cultural history. She is the author of The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas About White People 1830-1925 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000). Trained as an intellectual historian and specializing in racial thought, she has had work featured in numerous journal and collections, including "The Historical Origins of Afrocentrism," AmerikaStudien/American Studies, 45:4, December, 2000; "Remembering Racism: Rereading George Fredrickson's The Black Image in the White Mind," Reviews in American History, 27:4, December 1999; "'The World Was Thinking Wrong about Race': The Philadelphia Negro and Nineteenth-Century Science," in W.E.B. Du Bois, Race, and the City, edited by Michael Katz and Thomas Sugrue (Philadelphia: University Of Pennsylvania Press, 1998); and "The Color of Heaven," in Black on White: Black Writers on What it Means to Be White, edited by David R. Roediger. (New York: Schocken Books, 1998). Her most recent published works are "Looking Backward in Order to Go Forward: Black Women Historians and Black Women's History," in Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower, Deborah Gray White, ed. (University of North Carolina Press); "In Search of Sally Hemings in the Post-DNA Era," inReviews in American History 34:4, December 2006; and "'See Your Declaration Americans!!' Abolitionism, Americanism, and the Revolutionary Tradition in Free Black Politics," in Americanism: New Perspectives on the History of an Ideal, Michel Kazin and Joseph McCartin, eds. (University of North Carolina Press, 2006).
With Deborah Gray White, Professor of History, she developed and co-directed, from 1997 to 1999, the successful Black Atlantic Project at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, and served as Black Atlantic Project Director during its seminar series in 2000-2001. She is currently co-directing the seminar series once more, from 2005-2007, with Minkah Makalani. She is also currently working on several projects, including an intellectual biography of anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells and a study of African-American views on Thomas Jefferson. Together with Farah Jasmin Griffin at Columbia University, Professor Bay is also leading a new scholarly collaboration entitled "Towards an Intellectual History of Black Women".
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