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Tracy Sharpley-Whiting is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies and French at Vanderbilt University where she also chairs African American and Diaspora Studies and directs the Callie House Center for the Study of Global Black Cultures and Politics. She is the author/editor or co-editor of fifteen books. She is currently researching a biographical study of four African diasporic figures across French historical movements. She is co-editor of the Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, editor of the journal Palimpsest, one of the series editors of "Blacks in the Diaspora" (Indiana University Press, 2007-2015), and co-series editor of "Philosophy and Race" (SUNY Press). She served on the Executive Council of the Modern Language Association (2014-2018).

African American Literature

African American History

Black Culture

African American Diaspora

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Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies

Tracy Sharpley-Whiting, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies, is available for inquiries on Juneteenth.

Tracy is an expert in comparative Black cultural movements and African American literature and culture. Her research examines Black culture and the impacts of politics and society. She can discuss the history and significance of Juneteenth, the continuing relevance of African American history (including slavery) today and the work still yet to be done.

 

Black culture expert on history and significance of Juneteenth

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