Guide to the Ann duCille papers, 1965-2020
John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts
Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: Manuscripts: 401-863-3723; University Archives: 401-863-2148
Email: Manuscripts: hay@brown.edu; University Archives: archives@brown.edu
Published in 2024
Collection Overview
| Title: |
Ann duCille papers |
| Date range: |
1965-2020 |
| Creator: |
duCille, Ann |
| Extent: |
2.25 linear foot
(1 record center carton, 2 file boxes, 1 half file box, 1 oversize folder, and 1 slide box)
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| Abstract: |
This collection contains the personal and professional papers of Ann duCille, Professor of English, Emerita at Wesleyan University and Inaugural Distinguished Professor in Residence for the Black Feminist Theory Project at the Pembroke Center, Brown University. duCille is a scholar of African-American literature, cultural studies, and Black feminist theory. Materials include personal and professional correspondence, draft writings, dissertation proposals, awards and honors, and conference materials dating from 1965-2020. |
| Language of materials: |
English |
| Repository: |
John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts
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| Collection number: |
Ms.2016.013 |
Scope & content
This collection contains the personal and professional papers of Ann duCille, Professor of English, Emerita at Wesleyan University and Inaugural Distinguished Professor in Residence for the Black Feminist Theory Project at the Pembroke Center, Brown University. duCille is a scholar of African-American literature, cultural studies, and Black feminist theory.
Materials include personal and professional correspondence, draft writings, dissertation proposals, awards and honors, and conference materials. This collection dates from 1965-2020 and is arranged into one series, alphabetically by record type then topic.
Although the processor created the arrangement, where possible, original folder titles have been maintained and appear in quotation marks; the processor created the remaining folder titles. There is one folder of restricted material (2.15) that contains student records and personal identifying information that is closed until January 1, 2074, after which date materials will open without restriction.
Access Points
Subject Organizations
Subject Topics
Arrangement
The Ann duCille papers are arranged alphabetically by record type, then topic into 1 series. Exceptions include The Coupling Convenion and Skin Trade material that is arranged by title.
Biographical / Historical
Ann duCille is Professor of English, Emerita at Wesleyan University who is a scholar of African-American literature, cultural studies, and Black feminist theory. Born in Brooklyn, NY, duCIlle earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bridgewater State College and then a Master's degree and PhD in English from Brown University.
duCille began her career at Hamilton College in 1974 where she and two others became the first three Black women faculty on staff (see folder #2.16 for more information about duCille's experience at Hamilton College). In 1990, duCille joined the faculty of Wesleyan University and later also worked at the University of California, San Diego. In 2016, duCille became the Inaugural Distinguished Professor in Residence for the Black Feminist Theory Project at the Pembroke Center, Brown University. duCille currently serves as an advisor to that project, which is a visiting scholar initiative that invites black feminist theorist to campus each year. She is also a curatorial advisor to the Pembroke Center's Feminist Theory Archive in regard to the papers of black feminist theorists.
duCille's scholarship pertains to African-American literary and cultural studies and investigates popular culture and brand marketing, specifically the ways by which they influence perceptions of and discriminatory practices against races, genders, and identities. She rigorously interrogates concepts of self, otherness, and the American academy. Her publications include The Coupling Convention: Sex,Text, and Tradition in Black Women's Fiction (1993) and Skin Trade (1996).
Access & Use
| Access to the collection: |
There are no restrictions on access for analog materials, except that the collection can only be seen by prior appointment. Some materials may be stored off-site and cannot be produced on the same day on which they are requested. Advance notice is required to view any audiovisual media or born-digital records that may exist in this collection. Audiovisual media and born-digital records in this collection may not have been reformatted yet. Researchers may request access to copies by contacting the John Hay Library with the collection name, collection number, and a description of the item(s) requested. Access to original physical audiovisual or born-digital media is restricted. |
| Use of the materials: |
Researchers are advised that express written permission to reproduce, quote, or otherwise publish any portion or extract from this collection must be obtained from the Brown University Library. Although Brown University has physical ownership of the collection and the materials contained therein, it does not claim literary rights. It is up to the researcher to determine the owners of the literary rights and to obtain any necessary permissions from them. |
| Preferred citation: |
Ann duCille papers, MS.2016.013, Box [#], Folder [#], Pembroke Center Archives, John Hay Library, Brown University. |
| Contact information: |
John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts
Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: Manuscripts: 401-863-3723; University Archives: 401-863-2148
Email: Manuscripts: hay@brown.edu; University Archives: archives@brown.edu
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Administrative Information
| ABOUT THE COLLECTION |
| Acquisition: |
Gift of Ann duCille in 2015 and 2023. |
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| ABOUT THE FINDING AID |
| Author: |
Amanda Knox, Marcus Mamourian, and Mary Murphy on behalf of the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women and the Brown University Library. |
| Encoding: |
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2024-04-16. |
| Descriptive rules: |
Describing Archives: A Content Standard |
| Sponsor: |
Curatorial work and processing provided by Mary O. Murphy on behalf of the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women and the Brown University Library. |
Additional Information
Inventory
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 1 |
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Articles about duCille
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1977, 1978, 1993, 1997 |
| Box [31236073964903] 1, Folder 1 |
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Articles about Ann duCille; includes book reviews
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1994-2006 |
| Box [31236073964903] 1, Folder 2 |
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Articles by Ann duCille
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1990-2010 |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 2 |
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Articles by duCille
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1993, 2000, 2009, n.d. |
| Box [31236073964903] 1, Folder 3 |
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Awards and honors
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1986-2008 |
| Box [31236073964903] 1, Folder 4 |
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Awards and honors: Black Achivement Award from the Black Women's Collective
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2001 |
| Box [31236073964903] 1, Folder 5 |
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Awards and honors: black scholarship award from the University of Massachusetts, Boston
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1993 |
| Box [31236073964903] 1, Folder 6 |
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Awards and honors: honorary degree from Wesleyan University
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2000 |
| Box [31236104063030] 3, Folder 1 |
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Book cover proof and review: Technicolored: Reflections on Race in the time of TV
English.
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circa 2018-2020 |
| Box [31236073964903] 1, Folder 7 |
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Book covers: Skin Trade
English.
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n.d. |
| Box [31236073964903] 1, Folder 8 |
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Book details and blurbs: The Coupling Convention
English.
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2005 |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 3 |
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Book proposal: Idylls of the Kingfish: Race, Paternity, and the Popular
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n.d. |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 4 |
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Book proposal and related materials: The Black Feminist Reader
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1993-2013 |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 5 |
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Book review by duCille: Recovering the Lost Labors of Frances Harper
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circa 1994 |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 6 |
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Book review by duCille: untitled
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2006 |
| Box [31236073964903] 1, Folder 9 |
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Book review by duCille: Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde by Alexis DeVeaux
English.
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n.d. |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 7 |
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Book review by duCille: Who Reads Here? Back Talking with Houston Baker
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1992 |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 8 |
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Book reviews of Skin Trade by duCille
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1996-1998 |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 9 |
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Clippings re: Barbie dolls
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1992 |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 10 |
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Clippings re: Black police officers
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2000 |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 11 |
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Clippings re: Gayle Jones
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1998 |
| Box [31236073964903] 1, Folder 10 |
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Clippings re: Henry Louis Gates Jr., Huck Finn, and Martin Luther King Jr.
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1992-2000 |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 12 |
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Clippings re: Obama family
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2008-2009 |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 13 |
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Clippings re: race
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2010-2014 |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 14 |
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Clippings re: Tricia Rose
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2003 |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 15 |
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Clippings re: television shows
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2014 |
| Box [31236073964903] 1, Folder 11 |
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Conference material; includes introductory remarks, flyers, and programs for various conferences
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1990-2004 |
| Box [31236073964903] 1, Folder 12 |
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Conference material: American Studies Association and Modern Language Association conference abstracts, panel proposals, and papers
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1991-2002 |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 16 |
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Conference material: "Black Women Writers and the 'High Art' of Afro-American Letters;" includes planning materials, final report, and flyers
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1997-1998 |
| Box [31236073964903] 1, Folder 13 |
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Conference paper re: Zora Neale Hurston
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1990 |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 17 |
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Conference program: "Black Intellectuals and the Academy: The Work of Claudia Tate"
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December 7, 2001 |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 18 |
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Conference program: "Quiet as it's Kept: Passing Subjects, Contested Identities"
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April 2019 |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 19 |
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Conference program: "Unstoppable Women"
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May 18, 2000 |
| Box [31236073964903] 1, Folder 14 |
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Correspondence: personal; includes letters from former students and friends
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1992-1995 |
| Box [31236073964903] 1, Folder 15 |
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Correspondence: personal; contains postcard and color photographs from friend
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2000 |
| Box [31236073964903] 1, Folder 16 |
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Correspondence: professional
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1994-2001 |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 20 |
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Correspondence: professional
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1998, 2008, 2015 |
| Box [31236073964911] 2, Folder 1 |
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Correspondence: professional re: boards, committees, and conferences
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1994-2006 |
| Box [31236104063030] 3, Folder 2 |
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Correspondence: professional re: renewal of appointment as Professor of English and African American Studies at Wesleyan University
English.
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1999 |
| Box [31236104063030] 3, Folder 3 |
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Correspondence: professional re: talks and writings
English.
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2015-2020 |
| Box [31236073964911] 2, Folder 2 |
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Correspondence: professional re: university appointments and committee invitations
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1992-2002 |
| Box [31236073964911] 2, Folder 3 |
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Correspondence: publisher letters
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1990-2002 |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 21 |
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Correspondence from Gonzalez, Bill Johnson
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2006 |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 22 |
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Correspondence from Webb, Ayana
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2011 |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 23 |
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Correspondence re: "The Perfect Man" by duCille
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1998 |
| Box [31236073964911] 2, Folder 4 |
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Dissertation proposal
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1989 |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 24 |
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Draft abstract: "Boricua Barbie and the Shirley Temple of Doom"
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1998 |
| Box [31236104063030] 3, Folder 4 |
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Draft article: "Black Lives Matter... To Whom? How Liberal Hollywood has Failed People of Color"
English.
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n.d. |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 25 |
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Draft article: "Coltel; or, the President's Daughter;" includes research materials and handwritten notes
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circa 2005 |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 26 |
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Draft article: "Of Race, Gender, and the Novel or Where in the World is Toni Morrison?"
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n.d. |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 27 |
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Draft article: "The Rape of the Lot: The Black Woman as Subjected (Historiographical) Subject;" includes handwritten notes
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1988 |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 28 |
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Draft article: "The Shirley Temple of my Familiar"
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circa 1997 |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 29 |
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Draft article: "There is Confusion: Reclassifying Jessie Fauset"
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n.d. |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 30 |
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Draft article: untitled re: Plum Bun by Jessie Fauset
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n.d. |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 31 |
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Draft article: "Work"
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n.d. |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 32 |
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Draft paper: "Homeland Offense"
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n.d. |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 33 |
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Draft paper: "Hurstonism: Reading Beyond the Harlem 'Error'"
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n.d. |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 34 |
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Draft paper: "Periracism: Racial Geography and the 'First Difference Which Strikes Us'"
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n.d. |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 35 |
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Draft paper: "Place and Dis-Place: Periracism and the Geographics of Identity"
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n.d. |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 36 |
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Draft paper: "A Time to Kill Shirley Temple: Reading Race and Paternity in Contemporary Television and Film"
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n.d. |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 37 |
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Draft paper: untitled [partial]
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n.d. |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 38 |
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Draft poetry: "Little White Lies and Sins of Omission"
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n.d. |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 39 |
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Draft poetry: various titles
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circa 1975 |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 40 |
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Draft review by duCille: "Against the Closet" by Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman
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2012 |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 41 |
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Draft "short stories and vignettes"
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n.d. |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 42 |
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Draft synopsis: "Death Makes the Dean's List"
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n.d. |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 43 |
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Draft synopsis: "The Howling Coyote"
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n.d. |
| Box [31236104063030] 3, Folder 5 |
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Draft talk: "Bawdy Language: Beauty and the Beast of Barbie"
English.
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n.d. |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 44 |
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Draft talk: "Inconspicuous Consumption: A Literary Theory of the Black Leisure Class"
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n.d. |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 45 |
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Draft talk: "'Nobody's Darling:' Periracism and the Truly Diss-Advantaged"
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n.d. |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 46 |
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Draft talk: "O Pioneers! Vision/Revision and Black Women Scholars at Work"
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n.d. |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 47 |
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Draft talk: untitled re: 2001 commencement
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2001 |
| Box [31236104063030] 3, Folder 6 |
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Draft talk: untitled re: O.J. Simpson
English.
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n.d. |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 48 |
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Draft talk: "What a Difference a War makes: Race and the Red, White, and Blue"
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n.d. |
| Box [31236104063030] 3, Folder 7 |
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Draft talk: "Was Shakespeare Black?"
English.
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n.d. |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 49 |
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Editing materials for differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies marriage issue
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2000, 2016-2018 |
| Box [31236073964911] 2, Folder 5 |
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Field proposal, "Black Women Novelists and the African American Literary Tradition, 1859 to the Present"
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1988 |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 50 |
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List of Black Academy Award winners and nominees
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2002, 2010 |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 51 |
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List: staff and faculty contacts
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2008-2009 |
| Box [31236073964911] 2, Folder 6-9 |
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Manuscript draft: Technicolored: Reflections on Race in the Time of TV
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n.d. |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 52 |
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Notes re: "Hemings and Jefferson"
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n.d. |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 53 |
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Notes re: television
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n.d. |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 54 |
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Notes re: various topics
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n.d. |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 55 |
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Offprint: Fiction for the Purposes of History by Richard Slotkin
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2005 |
| Box [31236073964911] 2, Folder 10 |
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Personal essay, "Notes on Hamilton," re: duCille's time at Hamilton College in 1974 and the importance of documenting women's history
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March 10, 2017 |
| Box [31236104063030] 3, Folder 8 |
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Photographs
English.
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circa 1975 |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 56 |
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Photo of duCille (color)
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n.d. |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 57 |
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Photos of duCille (black and white)
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n.d. |
| Box [31236073964911] 2, Folder 11 |
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Poems by Ann duCille
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1987, n.d. |
| Oversize [31236104060374] Pembroke Center Archives catch-all oversize box 4XXX |
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Posters for talks by duCille
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2017 |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 58 |
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Posters for talks by duCille
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n.d. |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 59 |
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Print material: "Africana Studies Program 40th Anniversary, Vassar College"
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2009 |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 60 |
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Print material: "Black Students at Wesleyan"
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n.d. |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 61 |
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Print material: "Blacks in Rhode Island: A Heritage Discovered"
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n.d. |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 62 |
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Print material: Brown Alumni Magazine
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March/April 2001 |
| Box [31236104063030] 3, Folder 9 |
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Print material: Corregidora by Gayl Jones; includes inscription and photo from Jones to duCille
English.
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1975 |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 63 |
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Print material: "Golden Legacy Illustrated History Magazine: Crispus Attucks and the Minutemen"
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1967 |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 64 |
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Print material: "Hallelujah Voices: Taproots"
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May 20, 1988 |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 65 |
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Print material: Jet
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March 7, 2005 |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 66 |
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Print material: "Life Skills" course offering poster, Brandeis University
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n.d. |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 67 |
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Print material: "The Nubian: South Providence Girls Club mini-magazine"
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December 1973 |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 68 |
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Print material: "Perrywinkles: Poems by Children"
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Winter-Spring 1979 |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 69 |
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Print material: post card
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n.d. |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 70 |
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Print material: "Try Arts"
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1978-1979 |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 71 |
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Print material: The Wesleyan Argus
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March 2, 2001 |
| Box [31236073964911] 2, Folder 12 |
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"Prospectus"
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n.d. |
| Box [31236073964911] 2, Folder 13 |
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Publishing contracts; includes correspondence
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1990-1995 |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 72 |
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Slides of Barbie dolls (1 of 2)
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1994-1995 |
| Box [31236104064632] 5 |
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Slides of Barbie dolls (2 of 2)
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1994-1995 |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 73 |
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Slides of "Figuring (Out) Youth: Visual Media for the Masses"
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1994-1995 |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 74 |
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Slides of O.J. Simpson trial press (1 of 2)
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1994-1995 |
| Box [31236104064632] 5 |
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Slides of O.J. Simpson trial press (2 of 2)
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1994-1995 |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 75 |
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Student work by duCille: papers for various courses
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n.d. |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 76 |
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Student work by duCille: papers and handwritten notes for various courses
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1971 |
| Box [31236104063030] 3, Folder 10 |
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Subject file re: Hurston, Zora Neale; includes handwritten notes and partial typed talk draft
English.
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2005 |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 77 |
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Teaching material: "Literature of the Human Condition"
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n.d. |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 78 |
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Yearbook: East Bridgewater High School
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1965 |
| Box [31236104064624] 4, Folder 79 |
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Electronic records: "Barbie slides" (CD)
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n.d. |
| Box [31236073964911] 2, Folder 14 |
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Electronic records: Clark University conference lecture, "Periracism" (DVD)
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April 5, 2007 |
| Box [31236073964911] 2, Folder 14 |
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Electronic records: draft[?], "The Bucher's Dozen 6/29 version" (disk: title crossed out on recto)
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| Box [31236073964911] 2, Folder 14 |
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Electronic records: draft, "The Coupling Covention" (Word Perfect 5.0 on disk)
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n.d. |
| Box [31236073964911] 2, Folder 14 |
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Electronic records: draft, "The World According to Barbie" (Word Perfect 5.1 on disk)
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n.d. |
| Box [31236073964911] 2, Folder 15 |
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Restricted materials; includes recommendations and personal identifying information
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1994-2002 |