03091cam a2200505 4500 2718320466 TxAuBib 20260328120000.0 ||||||s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781469661896 1469661896 B08HGJ6CH9 Amazon 57c54fb3-b3d4-4c2c-9e33-b7e3e74abf0f OverDrive (Reserve ID) 5759052 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Benjamin, Shanna Greene. Half in Shadow [Libby eBook] : The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay. The University of North Carolina Press, 2021. Norton Anthology of African American Literature. African American women—higher education. Darwin Turner and early black critics. pioneers of Black feminist thought. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Black women and the archives. Queens College SEEK program. african american biography. Black students at Harvard. Black studies at Harvard. Zora Neale Hurston. Nell Irvin Painter. Henry Louis Gates. Feminist memoir. Nellie Y. McKay. Toni Morrison. Jr. HTML:Nellie Y. McKay (1930–2006) was a pivotal figure in contemporary American letters. The author of several books, McKay is best known for coediting the canon-making <i>Norton Anthology of African American Literature</i> with Henry Louis Gates Jr., which helped secure a place for the scholarly study of Black writing that had been ignored by white academia. However, there is more to McKay’s life and legacy than her literary scholarship. After her passing, new details about McKay’s life emerged, surprising everyone who knew her. Why did McKay choose to hide so many details of her past? Shanna Greene Benjamin examines McKay’s path through the professoriate to learn about the strategies, sacrifices, and successes of contemporary Black women in the American academy. Benjamin shows that McKay’s secrecy was a necessary tactic that a Black, working-class woman had to employ to succeed in the white-dominated space of the American English department. Using extensive archives and personal correspondence, Benjamin brings together McKay’s private life and public work to expand how we think about Black literary history and the place of Black women in American culture. Biography & Autobiography. Multi-Cultural. Nonfiction. Sociology. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-03-27 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=57c54fb3-b3d4-4c2c-9e33-b7e3e74abf0f&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=57c54fb3-b3d4-4c2c-9e33-b7e3e74abf0f&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)