Ruth Feldstein
Associate Professor
Staff
Department of History
308 Conklin Hall
(973) 353-5410 x13
feldst@andromeda.rutgers.edu
http://history.newark.rutgers.edu

Ruth Feldstein teaches in the Department of History and in the Graduate Program in American Studies at Rutgers-Newark. She is the author of Motherhood in Black and White: Race and Sex in American Liberalism, 1930-1965 (Cornell, 2000), and has written articles and reviews for the Journal of American History, the Journal of Cold War Studies, Reviews in American History, Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America, and (the forthcoming), Race, Nation, and Empire in American History. Her article, "‘I Don’t Trust You Anymore’: Nina Simone, African American Activism, and Culture in the 1960s," was awarded the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Prize, Association of Black Women Historians, for Best Article on Black Women’s History.

Her current research focuses on internationally famous black women entertainers who participated in the American civil rights movement. Her book-in-progress, Do What You Gotta Do: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), explores links between feminism, a global mass culture, black activism, and anti-colonial internationalism. She teaches general courses in American history, as well as focused seminars on women’s and gender history, cultural history, and African American history, and research seminars in American Studies.

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