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TitleInterview with Abena Busia
NameCross, June (Interviewer); Busia, Abena P. A. (Interviewee); Institute for Women's Leadership
Date Created2015
SubjectLiberal arts education, Diversity in higher education, Women’s rights, Feminism, Leadership in women, Civil rights movement, Global women’s movement, Global feminism, African American and African diaspora literature, Student activism, Protest on college campuses, Women’s education, Institute for Women’s Leadership, Douglass College, Douglass Residential College, Bunch, Charlotte, Hartman, Mary S., Wall, Cheryl A., Allan, Tuzyline Jita, Howe, Florence, Adeleye-Fayemi, Bisi, Mzamane, Mbulelo, 1948-2014, Bernstein, Alison R., 1947-2016, Center for Women’s Global Leadership, Rutgers Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers Department of English, Center for African Studies, Livingston College, African Literature Association, Young African Leaders Initiative, Women Writing Africa, African Women’s Development Fund
Extent56:51 minute(s)
DescriptionFounding member of the Center for Women’s Global Leadership and Center for African Studies, Abena Busia is an Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and the Department of English at Rutgers. She is also co-director and co-editor of the groundbreaking Women Writing Africa Project, a multi-volume anthology published by the Feminist Press at CUNY. Busia articulates the significance of communities and leadership at Rutgers and describes negotiating a space within Rutgers to consider women’s experiences, blackness, and African womanness. She emphasizes the value of a single-sex education and describes Douglass as a place for nurturing women’s leadership.
NoteAccompanied by transcript
Genreinterviews, video recordings
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T30K2D0P
LanguageEnglish
CollectionWomen, Education and Leadership at Rutgers
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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