Grimkes My own work was an attempt to grapple openly with the post civil war conflict between the agendas of the black freedom and women’s rights movement. Nonetheless, these historians were almost all white women and both their energies for and insights into this project were limited.
The racial integration of scholarship in women’s history had to await the emergence of a professionally trained corps of female scholars of color, for whom the diversification of U.S. women’s history was not just desirable, but a top priority. In my own judgment, this process began with the publication, in 1984, of Where and When I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America, by
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