African American Studies Department

Pam Brooks

Contact Information

E-mail: pam.brooks@oberlin.edu
Phone: (440) 775-8591
Office:
Rice Hall 210
10 North Professor Street
Oberlin, OH 44074

Associate Professor of African American Studies

Educational Background
B.A. in History, New York University
M.A. in History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Ph.D. in History, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts.

Areas of Expertise:

African American history; African American women's history; South African history; South African women's history; Black Freedom Movement history; Black Feminist theories; Black incarceration

Current Research:

Ms. Brooks is in the final stages of publishing her book manuscript entitled Boycotts, Buses, and Passes: Black Women's Resistance in the U. S. South and South Africa. Publication by the University of Massachusetts Press is scheduled for Fall/Winter 2008. A collaborative book project with her father Owen Brooks, a Mississippi Freedom Movement veteran, is currently underway. In addition, Ms. Brooks plans to continue her comparative/transnational work in African American and Black South African women's histories.

Recent Publications:

"The Montgomery Bus Boycott" in The Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora (ABC-CLIO, Inc.)

"Gwendolyn M. Patton" and "Idessa Williams Redden" in The African American National Biography (Oxford University Press)

"Crossing Borders: A Black Feminist Approach to Researching the Comparative Histories of Black Women's Resistance in the U. S. South and South Africa" in South Africa and the United States Compared: The Best of Safundi, 2003-2004 (Safundi Publications and Routledge, 2005).