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Mia Bay Image

Associate Professor of History

Ph.D., Yale University, 1993

305 Van Dyck Hall
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http://fas-history.rutgers.edu/~bay/

RESEARCH INTERESTS

African-American Intellectual and Cultural History; American Intellectual and Cultural History; African Diaspora

COURSES REGULARLY TAUGHT

Undergraduate

  • 512:378, 379 African-American History I and II
  • 512:103 Development of the US I
  • 512:370 American Thought to 1850
  • 506:401, 402 History Seminars: Black Nationalism, Slavery in America, Research on Black Women, American Racial Thought

Graduate

  • Colloquium in Cultural History
  • PDR III (19th Century)
  • Colloquium in African-American History
  • Colloquium in American History
  • Seminar in Recent American History

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • "The Historical Origins of Afrocentrism," AmerikaStudien/American Studies, 45:4 December, 2000
  • The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas About White People 1830-1925. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
  • "Remembering Racism: Rereading George Fredrickson's The Black Image in the White Mind," Reviews in American History, 27:4, December 1999.
  • "'The World Was Thinking Wrong about Race': The Philadelphia Negro and Nineteenth-Century Science," in W.E.B. Du Bois, Race, and the City . Edited by Michael Katz and Thomas Sugrue. Philadelphia: University Of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.
  • "The Color of Heaven," in Black on White: Black Writers on What it Means to Be White. Edited by David R. Roediger. New York: Schocken Books, 1998.