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Name
  
Paula Giddings

Role
  
Writer


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Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography

Nominations
  
National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography

People also search for
  
Ida B. Wells, Cornel West, Barry Eastmond

Books
  
When and Where I Enter, In search of sisterhood, Ida: A Sword Among Li, Regarding Malcolm X

Education
  
Howard University (1969)

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Paula Giddings (born 1947 in Yonkers, New York) is a writer and an African-American historian. She is the author of When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America and In Search of Sisterhood. She is a professor of African-American Studies at Smith College and has previously taught at Spelman College, where she was a United Negro Fund Distinguished Scholar and Douglass College at Rutgers University where she held the Laurie Chair in Women's Studies. Giddings has also taught at Princeton University, North Carolina Central University and Duke University. She is also a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority.

Contents

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Early life

Giddings grew up in an integrated neighborhood of Yonkers, New York, where she suffered from day-to-day discrimination. Later, she participated in Freedom rides where she first experienced political commitment. In 1975, she travelled to South Africa where she had the opportunity to meet leaders of the Anti-Apartheid Movement.

Main publications

  • Ida, A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching (Amistad/Harper Collins, 2008, ISBN 0060797363)
  • Burning All Illusions: Writings from The Nation on Race 1866-2002 (Editor) (Thunder's Mouth Press, 2002, ISBN 1560253843)
  • In Search of Sisterhood: Delta Sigma Theta and the Challenge of the Black Sorority Movement (William Morrow & Co, 1988; Quill Publishers, 1995, ISBN 0688135099)
  • When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America (William Morrow & Co, 1984; Bantam Press, 1985; 2nd: William Morrow Paperbacks, 1996, ISBN 0688146503)
  • Awards

  • Candace Award for History, National Coalition of 100 Black Women, 1984
  • References

    Paula Giddings Wikipedia