An interview with Deborah Gray White

Interviewee: Deborah Gray White is the Board of Governors Professor of History and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. During her twenty-six years at Rutgers, she has not only been a teacher but the co-director of ""The Black Atlantic: Race, Nation and Gender"" project at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis (1997-99), a research professor at the Rutgers Institute for Research on Women (1999-2000), and chair of the history department (2000-03). As an Americanist who specializes in African American and American Women’s history, Professor White is especially interested in issues of identity and the intersection of race, class, gender and sexuality.Professor White is the author of Ar'n't I A Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South (Norton, 1985). A second edition, with a new introduction and additional chapter, was issued in 1999. In anticipation of its anniversary, the Southern Historical Association celebrated it at its 2003 conference; and in 2005 a conference entitled ""Slave Women's Lives: Twenty Years of 'Ar'n't I A Woman?' and More"" was held at the Huntington Institute in California, with the proceedings published in the 2007 Winter issue of the Journal of African American Studies; the papers presented in honor of it at the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women were published in the Journal of Women's History in July 2007. Interviewers: Kai Durant and Aiyana Jihad. IWL scholars, class of 2018.