Kennedy School of Government and the W.E.B. She has held post-doctoral fellowships at the John F. She is also a co-founder of the National Women's Studies Association, for which she served as co-convener of the inaugural coordinating council. She is a former contributing editor to Ms. īell-Scott's previous books include Life Notes: Personal Writings by Contemporary Black Women (1994), which was a featured selection of the Quality Paperback Book Club Flat-footed Truths: Telling Black Women's Lives (1998) Double Stitch: Black Women Write about Mothers and Daughters (1991), which won the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize, and All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave (co-edited with Gloria Hull and Barbara Smith, 1982), an award-winning textbook that was named to the Black Issues Books Review list of "Books that Made the Century Great."īell-Scott served for a decade as co-founding editor of SAGE: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women. This book was also named a finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, and longlisted for the National Book Award. Her most recent book, The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice, won the Lillian Smith Book Award and was named Booklist Best Adult Nonfiction Book of the Year by the American Library Association. Patricia Bell-Scott is an author and professor emerita of women's studies and human development and family science at the University of Georgia. Personal life Ī native of Chattanooga, Tennessee, Bell-Scott lives in Athens, Georgia, with her husband, Charles Vernon Underwood Jr., a retired Tennessee Valley Authority information technology manager. As an author, she has been widely collected by libraries worldwide. She is currently a professor emerita of women's studies and human development and family science at the University of Georgia.
Patricia Bell-Scott is an American scholar of women's studies and black feminism. American scholar of women's studies and black feminism
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