EP 51: Dr. Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor | Colored Travelers | Book on Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship before the Civil War

SHOW NOTES:
This week on (A)Broad in Education is Dr. Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor, associate professor at Smith College. In this episode, we discuss her current book, Colored Travelers: Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship before the Civil War, and her upcoming book, a memoir that focuses on unpacking the “N-word.”

RESOURCES:
Flourish in the Foreign with Christine Job: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-2BEuY2EoU&t=4s
Access your Linear Life Timeline here: http://eepurl.com/hkD3H9
Dr. Elizabeth Pryor's Selected Publications: Colored Travelers: Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship before the Civil War (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016).

“The Etymology of [the N-word]: Resistance, Language and the Politics of Freedom in the Antebellum North” in the Journal of the Early Republic, 36 (Summer 2016), pp. 203-245.
Presentations: “Why It’s So Hard To Talk About the N-Word,” Ted.com, March 12, 2020.
Richard Pryor on the Sunset Strip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u5mwcMgh0Q

SOCIAL MEDIA:
Facebook: Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor
IG and Twitter: @pryorhistories

BIOGRAPHY:
Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor specializes in 19th-century U.S. history and race. Her first book, Colored Travelers: Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship before the Civil War, is a social history of black activists who, long before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, fought against segregation on public vehicles. Pryor argues that their protest elevated the cars, compartments and cabins of public transportation to the frontlines for the battle over equal rights in the 19th century. Her essay, “The Etymology of [the N-word]: Resistance, Language, and the Politics of Freedom in the Antebellum North,” won the Ralph D. Gray Prize for the best article of 2016 in the Journal of the Early Republic. Her next project, inspired by the article as well as her teaching at Smith College, is a historical and pedagogical study of the n-word framed, in part, by her experience as a biracial woman in the United States.

In the classroom, Pryor is interested in questions of citizenship, race and racism and the history of U.S. slavery, looking carefully at how enslaved people's histories are remembered and who remembers them. Her classes are designed to help students make connections between the anti-blackness of the past and in the present. She is a recipient of a 2011 student-government teaching award and, in 2016, the Sherrerd Prize for Distinguished Teaching at Smith.

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