- Barbara Christian
Barbara Christian (b.
Dec 12 1943 ,St. Thomas, Virgin Islands ; d.June 25 2000 Berkeley, California ) was an author and professor of African-American Studies at theUniversity of California, Berkeley . Among several books, and over 100 published articles, Christian was most well known for the 1980 study "Black Women Novelists: The Development of a Tradition".Notable accomplishments
* Taught at the
City College of the City University of New York (1965–1972)
* Christian helped establish the African-American Studies Department at UC Berkeley
* She was the first African-American woman to be granted tenure at UC Berkeley (1978)
* Awarded the City of Berkeley's highest honor, the Berkeley Citation [ [http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2000/07/12/christian.html 07.12.00 - Barbara Christian, professor and pioneer of contemporary American literary feminism, dies at age 56 ] ]elected Bibliography
*"Black Women Novelists: The Development of a Tradition, 1892-1976", Greenwood Press (1980)
*"Teaching Guide to Accompany Black Foremothers" (1980)
*"Black Feminist Criticism: Perspectives on Black Women Writers", Teachers College Press (1985)
*"From the Inside Out: Afro-American Women's Literary Tradition and the State" (1987)
*"Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Other Works: A Critical Commentary", Simon & Schuster (1987)References
* [http://search.eb.com/blackhistory/article-9095736 Encyclopedia Britannica's Guide to Black History]
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