Book Launch | Merze Tate
Part of the Race and Resistance Research Hub events
Wednesday 8 May 2024, 5pm - 6.30pm
Rothermere American Institute (1A South Parks Road).
Registration is required.
Supported by the Oxford Political Thought Seminar, RAI Events, and Race and Resistance.
We have the absolute pleasure of welcoming back Professor Barbara Savage, a stalwart of our community during her time in Oxford, on the 8th of May for a launch of her newest book, Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar. This event is a gilded opportunity to celebrate the contributions of two trailblazers, Professor Merze Tate and Professor Savage, and we encourage you all to attend – this is an event not to be missed!
Book Details
Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar (Yale University Press, 2024).
Born in rural Michigan during the Jim Crow era, the bold and irrepressible Merze Tate (1905–1996) refused to limit her intellectual ambitions, despite living in what she called a “sex and race discriminating world”. Against all odds, through her brilliance and hard work Tate earned degrees in international relations from Oxford (1935) and a doctorate in government from Harvard (1941). She then joined the faculty of Howard University, where she taught for three decades of a long life spanning the tumultuous twentieth century. Tate was one of the few black women academics of her generation and a prolific scholar with a wide range of interests. This book revives and critiques Tate's prolific and prescient body of scholarship, with topics ranging from nuclear arms limitations to race and imperialism in Asia, the Pacific, and Africa.
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Part of the Race and Resistance Research Hub events.
