“Our Origin Stories Matter.”

Writer, Historian, and Professor of Black Women’s Ideas and Intellect.
Dr. Ashley D. Farmer

A PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL

Dr. Ashley D. Farmer is a historian of Black women's history, intellectual history, and radical politics. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Departments of History and African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her book, Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era is the first comprehensive study of black women's intellectual production and activism in the Black Power era. She is also the co-editor of New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition, an anthology that examines central themes within the black intellectual tradition.

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BOOKS BY DR. FARMER

Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore

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