Barbara D. Savage, "Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar" (Yale UP, 2023)
Born in rural Michigan during the Jim Crow era, the bold and irrepressible Merze Tate (1905\u20131996) refused to limit her intellectual ambitions, despite living in what she called a \u201csex and race discriminating world.\u201d Against all odds, the brilliant and hardworking Tate earned degrees in international relations from Oxford University in 1935 and a doctorate in government from Harvard in 1941. She then joined the faculty of Howard University, where she taught for three decades of her long life spanning the tumultuous twentieth century.\nMerze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar\xa0(Yale UP, 2023) revives and critiques Tate\u2019s prolific and prescient body of scholarship, with topics ranging from nuclear arms limitations to race and imperialism in India, Asia, the Pacific, and Africa. Tate credited her success to other women, Black and white, who helped her realize her dream of becoming a scholar. Her quest for research and adventure took her around the world twice, traveling solo with her cameras.\nBarbara Savage\u2019s skilled rendering of Tate\u2019s story is built on more than a decade of research. Tate\u2019s life and work challenge provincial approaches to African American and American history, women\u2019s history, the history of education, diplomatic history, and international thought.\nOmari Averette-Phillips is a History educator based in Southern California. He can be reached at omariaverette@gmail.com.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies