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Copyright 2010 Christa V. Hardy African American History African American Women Black Studies Women Studies en Jenkins, Christine A. Smith, Linda C. Jenkins, Christine A. Moller, Karla J. McDuffie, Erik S. Hardy, Christa V. 2011-01-21T22:52:45Z 2011-01-21T22:52:45Z 2013-01-22T11:00:17Z 2011-01-21T22:52:45Z 2010-12 This is a critical analysis of Jessie Carney Smith’s Notable Black American Women (1992) as an illustration of black feminist knowledge production. It explores the contributions of Dr. Smith to African American women’s and library history during her more than four decades as Head Librarian at historically black Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. Under her editorship, Notable Black American Women was a pioneering effort to fill the previously long-existing gap in reference resources. Prior to 1992, mainstream reference publishers had never published biographical dictionaries concerning African American women’s historical contributions and achievements. Over twenty years in the making, the inaugural volume contains 500 individually handcrafted biographies that chronicle the accomplishments of African American women. Using archival research, oral history and narrative analysis, I examine the influence of race, culture and gender on the research agenda and knowledge production of an African American woman librarian. Item withdrawn by Alexis Thompson (athmpsn1@illinois.edu) on 2010-11-24T18:04:05Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 1 Hardy_Christa.pdf: 1983497 bytes, checksum: 2bda1d3d45a6ada7622f21ac2423d817 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2011-01-21T22:52:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Hardy_Christa.pdf: 2416632 bytes, checksum: b213ec184cb5f5cf6e5aa6352f3efb2a (MD5) license.txt: 4059 bytes, checksum: 170bb6b66f7e600939da5c13f3e78ab1 (MD5) Item marked as restricted to the 'Administrator' Group (id=1) by William Ingram (wingram2@illinois.edu) on 2011-01-21T22:54:03Z Item is restricted until 2013-01-21T22:53:34Z Item reinstated by Sarah Shreeves (sshreeve@illinois.edu) on 2013-01-22T11:00:17Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Dissertations and Theses (ID: 204) Dissertations and Theses - Library and Information Science (ID: 449) No. of bitstreams: 3 Hardy_Christa.pdf.txt: 434431 bytes, checksum: 7ec430e1151231ed63316a7e9a87ed87 (MD5) Hardy_Christa.pdf: 2416632 bytes, checksum: b213ec184cb5f5cf6e5aa6352f3efb2a (MD5) license.txt: 4059 bytes, checksum: 170bb6b66f7e600939da5c13f3e78ab1 (MD5) Item released from any restrictions by Sarah Shreeves (sshreeve@illinois.edu) on 2013-01-22T11:00:17Z http://hdl.handle.net/2142/18638 African American Librarians Piecing a quilt: Jessie Carney Smith and the making of African American women's history Library & Information Science 1992 Library & Information Science 0370 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D. PHD:Library & Infor Sci -UIUC 10KS0370PHD