Leslie Brown
American historian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Leslie Brown was an American historian. Life Leslie Brown was born in New York City and grew up in Albany, New York. She graduated in 1977 from Tufts University with a B.A. in sociology, and from Duke University with an A. M. and Ph.D in History 1997. Following her graduation, she was a bartender, managed stores for CVS and McDonalds, drove trucks for Ryder, and worked at Skidmore College in the Admissions Office and as director of the Higher Education Opportunity Program. From 1990 to 1995, while a graduate student at Duke University, she co-coordinated "Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South", a project based at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke. As part of that project, Brown conducted oral history interviews in North Carolina, and helped facilitate the collection of more than 1,200 oral history interviews with African American southerners throughout the region.
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- Manufacturing ghost fathers: the paradox of father presence and absence in child welfare (2009) (163)
- Connecting father absence and mother blame in child welfare policies and practice (2008) (140)
- Self-Esteem and Achievement of Black and White Adolescents (1978) (103)
- Upbuilding Black Durham: Gender, Class, and Black Community Development in the Jim Crow South (2008) (65)
- ‘Here's my Story’: Fathers of ‘Looked After’ Children Recount their Experiences in the Canadian Child Welfare System (2011) (44)
- Never Innocent Victims (2014) (33)
- Working with Me, Working at Me: Fathers' Narratives of Child Welfare (2009) (32)
- Living with Jim Crow: African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South (2011) (22)
- “Nothing Short of a Horror Show”: Triggering Abjection of Street Workers in Western Canadian Newspapers (2013) (12)
- America's First Black Town: Brooklyn Illinois, 1830-1915 (2002) (8)
- Black Durham Behind the Veil: A Case Study (2004) (4)
- Towards Transformational Research for and with Indigenous Communities: The New British Columbia Indigenous Child Welfare Research Network (2020) (4)
- Living with Jim Crow (2010) (4)
- The Dark Tree: Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles (2009) (1)
- U.S. Women's History (2017) (1)
- A Society Totally Our Own: Institutional and Cultural Life (2010) (0)
- You Are All Under Bondage, Which Is True: Working Lives (2010) (0)
- 10. Spinning the Family Web: Grandparents Raising Grandchildren in Canada (2011) (0)
- What Is Expected Of You: Gender and Sexuality (2010) (0)
- Hear our stories: an examination of the external factors and motivating forces that help underprepared students succeed (2015) (0)
- African American Voices: A Documentary Reader from Emancipation to the Present (2014) (0)
- I Like To Get Something Done: Fighting for Social and Political Change (2010) (0)
- The Foundation Was There: Growing up a Girl in the Jim Crow South (2010) (0)
- Introduction: We Did Well With What We Had: Remembering Black Life Behind the Veil (2010) (0)
- Web Site and Film Resources for Teaching Jim Crow History (2004) (0)
- Increased risks for adolescents (1977) (0)
- Behind the Veil: Behind Brown (2004) (0)
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