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Tiffany Patterson

Visiting Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
African-American history, history of African peoples

Office: LT 817  
Phone: (607) 777-4424 E-mail: tpatt@binghamton.edu

Recent or current undergraduate courses:

  • Africa, Europe and the Americas, 1400-1888
  • Africa, Europe & the Americas, 1830-1968
  • The Modern Caribbean
  • American Social Identities
  • The Problem of Freedom

Recent or current graduate courses:

  • Freedom & Social Regulation in the Post-Emancipation Atlantic
  • The Making of the African Diaspora
  • Engendering African-American History
  • Race, Culture & Empire
  • African Americans in the Colonial Age, 1877-1957

Significant Publications

Books:

  • Rootedness: Zora Neale Hurston and the History of Private Life (forthcoming)
  • Black Women in United States History, 16 vols., edited by Darlene Clark Hine and associate editors, Elsa Barkley Brown, Tiffany R.L. Patterson, and Lillian S. Williams. Carlson Publishing, 1990.

Articles:

  • "Madame C.J. Walker," in The Oxford Companion to United States History, ed. Paul S. Boyer (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001): 811.
  • "United Negro College Fund," in Organizing Black America: An Encyclopedia of African American Associations (New York: Garland Publishers, 2001): 669-670.
  • "Unfinished Migrations: Reflections on the African Diaspora and the Making of the Modern World," co-authored with Robin D.G. Kelley, African Studies Review (April 2000): 11-45.
  • "Gender, Slavery, and the Making of New World Identities," a review of Darlene Clark Hine and David Barry Gasper, eds., More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas, and Maggie Montesinos Sale, The Slumbering Volcano in Gender and History (July 1999): 373-378.
  • "Zora Neale Hurston," Encyclopedia of Black Women in the United States. Edited by Darlene Clark Hine, Elsa Barkley Brown, and Rosalyn Terborg Penn (New York: Carlson Publishing, 1993): 598-603.
  • "Postscript to the Los Angeles Riot: Atlanta and the Crisis of Black Leadership," in Why L.A. Happened: Implications of the '92 Los Angeles Rebellion, ed. by Haki Madhubuti (Chicago: Third World Press, 1992): 174-184.
  • "Harriet Tubman," in The Readers' Encyclopedia of American History. Edited by Eric Foner and John A. Garraty (New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990)
  • "Towards a Black Feminist Analysis: Recent Works by Black Women Scholars," in Women Organizing, no. 11 (Summer 1983).
  • "Sex and Class in Marable's Third Reconstruction," in Steve Shalom, ed., Socialist Visions (South End Press, 1983).
  • "Some Notes on the Historical Study of the Black Family," Insight, Ethnic Heritage Series (March, 1980).