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(Redirected from Barbara Fields) American historian (born 1947)
Barbara J. Fields
Fields in 2013
BornBarbara Jeanne Fields
1947 (age 76–77)
AwardsJohn H. Dunning Prize (1986)
Lincoln Prize (1994)
Academic background
Alma materHarvard University (BA)
Yale University (PhD)
Academic work
InstitutionsColumbia University
Northwestern University
University of Michigan
University of Mississippi

Barbara Jeanne Fields (born 1947) is an American historian. She is a professor of American history at Columbia University. Her focus is on the history of the American South, 19th century social history, and the transition to capitalism in the United States.

Life

Barbara Fields was born in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1947, and was raised in Washington, D.C., where she attended Morgan Elementary School, Banneker Junior High School, and Western High School. She received her B.A. from Harvard University in 1968, and her Ph.D. from Yale University in 1978. At Yale, she was one of the last doctoral students of C. Vann Woodward, one of the preeminent American historians of the twentieth century. She appears in Ken Burns' documentary series, The Civil War and The Congress.

Fields was the first African American woman to earn tenure at Columbia University. She has also taught at Northwestern University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Mississippi. She is widely known for her 1990 essay, "Slavery, Race and Ideology in the United States of America." She authored the 2012 book Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life (along with her sister Karen Fields, a sociologist). The book argues that race is a product of racism; that racism is an ideology and a way of misunderstanding social reality; and that racecraft in American society serves to obfuscate the actual dynamics of inequality.

Bard College awarded Fields an honorary doctorate in May 2007. She received the Philolexian Award for Distinguished Literary Achievement in 2017. Thavolia Glymph considers Fields one of the nation’s greatest historians.

Awards

  • 1992 MacArthur Fellows Program
  • 1986 John H. Dunning Prize of the American Historical Association, for Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland during the Nineteenth Century
  • Founders Prize of the Confederate Memorial Literary Society, for The Destruction of Slavery
  • Thomas Jefferson Prize of the Society for the History of the Federal Government, for The Destruction of Slavery
  • 1994 Lincoln Prize by the Lincoln and Soldiers Institute at Gettysburg College, for Free At Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Emancipation, and the Civil War

Works

References

  1. "Fields, Barbara". 31 August 2016.
  2. "MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2018-05-11.
  3. "Barbara J. Fields". Archived from the original on 2011-04-11. Retrieved 2010-04-14.
  4. "Barbara Fields". IMDb. Retrieved 2020-10-06.
  5. ^ Torres, Mo (2022). "Against Race, Toward the Abolition of Racism". Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. 9: 124–127. doi:10.1177/23326492221136168. ISSN 2332-6492. S2CID 253329204.
  6. Fields, Barbara Jeanne (1990). "Slavery, race and ideology in the United States of America". New Left Review. 181: 95–118.
  7. Denvir, Daniel (17 Jan 2018). "Barbara and Karen Fields discuss their new book, "Racecraft"". historynewsnetwork.org. Retrieved 2020-10-06.
  8. Magubane, Zine (2022). "Exposing the Conjuror's Tricks: Barbara Fields's Sociological Imagination". Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. 9: 128–132. doi:10.1177/23326492221136165. ISSN 2332-6492. S2CID 253342715.
  9. ^ Heideman, Paul (2022). "Racecraft as a Challenge to the Sociology of Race". Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. 9: 119–123. doi:10.1177/23326492221136164. ISSN 2332-6492. S2CID 253326167.
  10. https://www.historians.org/perspectives-article/deeply-rooted-meet-thavolia-glymph-the-2024-aha-president-january-2024/

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