Ruth Feldstein is Professor of History and American Studies at Rutgers University, Newark. Her scholarship and teaching bring together women’s and gender history, African-American history, and cultural history across borders. She is the author of Motherhood in Black and White: Race and Sex in American Liberalism, 1930-1965, and the award-winning How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement, which tells the story of six Black women performers and their critical importance to both the civil rights movement and women’s liberation. She was associate producer for the Emmy-nominated documentary, How It Feels to Be Free, based on her book.
The Village Trip Lecture: Performing Politics in the Village: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement