Mia Bay

Mia Bay is associate professor of history at Rutgers University, and the associate director of the Rutgers Center for Race and Ethnicity at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis. An intellectual historian who focuses on African American history, she is author of The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas About White People 1830-1925 (2000), as well as the recent biography To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells (2009). She is currently writing a book on African American ideas about Thomas Jefferson and has also begun to research a new project on the social history of segregated transportation.

Lecture topics:

• "If Iola was a Man:" Gender, Politics, and Pubic Protest in the Life of Ida B. Wells
• "Like a Lady": Female Travelers in the Jim Crow South
• "The Ambidexter Philosopher": Thomas Jefferson in Free Black Political Thought
• Using the Internet to Teach African American History

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