Mia Bay

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Mia Bay is an American historian and currently the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Chair in American History at the University of Pennsylvania.{{Cite web|url=http://www.history.upenn.edu/people/faculty/mia-bay|title=Mia Bay {{!}} Department of History|website=www.history.upenn.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-03-23}} 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{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780195132793|title=The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925|last=results|first=search|date=2000-02-10|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780195132793|edition=1st|location=New York, NY|language=English|url-access=registration}} and To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells.{{Cite book|title=To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells|last=results|first=search|date=2010-02-02|publisher=Hill and Wang|isbn=9780809016464|edition= 1st|location=New York|language=English}}

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.{{Cite web|url=http://history.rutgers.edu/faculty-directory/97-bay-mia|title=Bay, Mia|website=history.rutgers.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-06-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170511032609/http://history.rutgers.edu/faculty-directory/97-bay-mia|archive-date=2017-05-11|url-status=dead}} 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{{Cite web|url=https://www.brandeis.edu/projects/fse/conferences/beyond-slavery/presenters/mia-bay.html|title=Mia Bay {{!}} Beyond Slavery {{!}} Feminist Sexual Ethics Project {{!}} Brandeis University {{!}} Brandeis University|website=www.brandeis.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-06-30}} and is a member of the Organization of American Historians.{{Cite web|url=http://www.oah.org/lectures/lecturers/view/1510|title=Organization of American Historians: Mia Bay|website=www.oah.org|language=en|access-date=2017-06-30}} She was awarded the Bancroft Prize in 2022 for Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance.{{Cite news |last=Schuessler |first=Jennifer |date=2022-03-16 |title=Histories of Travel Segregation and Chinese Migration Win Bancroft Prize |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/arts/bancroft-prize-segregation-chinese-migration.html |access-date=2022-03-17 |issn=0362-4331}}

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.{{Cite news |last=Szalai |first=Jennifer |date=2021-03-24 |title='Traveling Black,' a Look at the Civil Rights Movement in Motion |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/24/books/review-traveling-black-mia-bay.html |access-date=2022-03-17 |issn=0362-4331}}
  • Race and Retail: Consumption across the Color Line. Rutgers Studies on Race and Ethnicity, 2015. (Editor, Contributor).{{Cite book|title=Race and Retail: Consumption across the Color Line|last1=Kwate|first1=Naa Oyo A.|last2=Cadava|first2=Geraldo L.|last3=Parker|first3=Traci|last4=Kenny|first4=Bridget|last5=Heaton|first5=John W.|last6=Wu|first6=Ellen D.|last7=Bayouth|first7=Neiset|last8=Londoño|first8=Johana|last9=González|first9=Erualdo R.|date=2015-08-04|publisher=Rutgers University Press|isbn=9780813571706|editor-last=Bay|editor-first=Professor Mia|location=New Brunswick, NJ|language=English|editor-last2=Fabian|editor-first2=Professor Ann}}
  • 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.{{Cite book|title=Freedom on My Mind: A History of African Americans with Documents, Vol. 1: To 1885|last1=White|first1=Deborah Gray|last2=Bay|first2=Mia|last3=Martin|first3=Waldo E. Jr.|date=2012-12-14|publisher=Bedford/St. Martin's|isbn=9780312648831|edition= First|location=New York|language=English}}
  • To Tell the Truth Freely: the Life of Ida B. Wells. Hill & Wang, 2009.{{cite journal|last1=Materson|first1=Lisa G.|title=Mia Bay . To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells . New York : Hill and Wang . 2009 . Pp. viii, 374. $35.00.|journal=The American Historical Review|date=1 June 2010|volume=115|issue=3|pages=852–853|doi=10.1086/ahr.115.3.852|url=https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article/115/3/852/42292/Mia-Bay-To-Tell-the-Truth-Freely-The-Life-of-Ida-B|accessdate=30 June 2017|language=en|issn=0002-8762}}{{cite journal|last1=Jones|first1=Jeannette Eileen|title=To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells (review)|journal=American Studies|date=8 October 2011|volume=50|issue=3|pages=183–184|doi=10.1353/ams.2009.0030|s2cid=144886577|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/453602|accessdate=30 June 2017|issn=2153-6856}}{{cite news|title=Nonfiction Book Review: To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells by Mia Bay|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8090-9529-2|accessdate=30 June 2017|work=Publishers Weekly|date=December 15, 2008|language=en}}{{cite news|title=TO TELL THE TRUTH FREELY by Mia Bay {{!}} Kirkus Reviews|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/mia-bay/to-tell-the-truth-freely/|accessdate=30 June 2017|work=Kirkus Reviews|date=November 15, 2008|language=en-us}}{{cite journal|last1=E.|first1=Woodruff, Nan|title=To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells|journal=The Journal of Southern History|date=1 May 2011|volume=77|issue=2|url=https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-255492731/to-tell-the-truth-freely-the-life-of-ida-b-wells|accessdate=30 June 2017|language=en|issn=0022-4642}}{{cite journal|last1=Harper|first1=Matt|title=Review|journal=The Journal of African American History|date=2011|volume=96|issue=3|pages=410–412|doi=10.5323/jafriamerhist.96.3.0410|jstor=10.5323/jafriamerhist.96.3.0410|s2cid=224838072}}
  • The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas About White People 1830-1925. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780195132793|title=The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925|date=2000-02-10|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780195132793|location=Oxford, New York|url-access=registration}}

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