E. Frances White (born 1949) is an American historian, author and academic serving as Professor Emerita of History and Black Studies at

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. From 2005 to 2008 she served as Vice Provost of Faculty Affairs at

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. Prior to that post, she was the Dean of

(1998–2005). She also taught at

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from 1980 to 1998/99. She holds a B.A. from Wheaton College (1971), an M.A. in

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from

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(1973), as well as a Ph.D from

(1978).E Frances White at NYU Academia
Retrieved May 21, 2020.

Publications

*''Dark continent of our bodies: Black feminism & politics of respectability'' (2010) *''Jackie Ormes: The First African American Woman Cartoonist'' (2009) *''While the World Watched'' (2007) *''The Evidence of Things Not Seen: The Alchemy of Race and Sexuality'' (2006) *''Africa, as the Women Tell It'' (Book review, 2006) *''Black feminist interventions'' (2001) *''Listening to the Voices of Black Feminism'' (1997, with many others) *''Gender, culture and empire-European women in colonial Nigeria'' (Book review, 1991) *''Africa on my mind: Gender, counter discourse and African-American nationalism'' (1990) *''Women in sub-Saharan Africa: restoring women to history'' (1990, with I Berger and C Skidmore-Hess) *''The Circumcision of Women: A Strategy for Eradication'' (1989) *''Women in West and West-Central Africa'' (1988) *''Restoring Women to History: Teaching Packets for Integrating Women's History Into Courses on Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and the Middle East'' (1988, with Iris Berger, Barbara Ramusack, Sharon Sievers,

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, Virginia S Korrol, Guity Nashat, and Judith E Tucker) *''Sierra Leone's Settler Women Traders: Women on the Afro-European Frontier'' (1987) *''Beauty Secrets'' (1987) *''Labour and Parastatal Politics in Sierra Leone: A Study of African Working-Class Ambivalence'' (1986) *''Listening to the voices of Black feminism'' (1984) *''Thomas George Lawson: African Historian and Administrator in Sierra Leone'' (1982) *''Women, work and ethnicity: the Sierra Leone case'' (1982) *''Women's production outside the development process'' (1982) *''Creole women traders in the nineteenth century'' (1981) *''A Black Feminist in Africa'' (1981) *''The Big Market in Freetown: a case study of women's workplace'' (1980) *''Creole Women Traders in the Nineteenth Century: Worker Intelligence Networks in Lourenço Marques, 1900-1962'' (1980) *''Creole women traders in Sierra Leone: an economic and social history, 1792-1945'' (1978)

References

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