Sharon
Harley
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Friday, June 20, 2003
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Panel Five: Women and Labor
Sharon Harley is a professor and former director of Afro-American
Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. A specialist
in African-American women's history, Harley’s research and
teaching has focused on the history of black wage-earning women
and black women's organizational activities, as well as other topics.
In 2002-2003, she was a distinguished fellow of the Woodrow Wilson
Center in Washington, D.C. The recipient of many other honors, she
is the coeditor of Afro-American Women: Struggles and Images
and Women in Africa and the African Diaspora, as well as many
articles on gender, race, and working-class consciousness. She has
served as a consultant in race and gender curriculum development
and K-12 textbooks in African American history. Her newest book
is Sister Circle: Black Women and Work, produced with the
Black Women and Work Collective, and she is currently directing
a Ford Foundation-funded national research seminar on "Work
in the Lives of Women of Color" as part of her "Center
for African American Women's Labor Studies."
Website:
http://www.bsos.umd.edu/aasp/harley.htm
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