Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar
Barbara D. Savage
Yale University Press
A powerful and inspiring biography of Merze Tate, a trailblazing Black woman scholar and intrepid world traveler.
This book revives and critiques Tate's prolific and prescient body of scholarship, with topics ranging from nuclear arms limitations to race and imperialism in Asia, the Pacific, and Africa.
Barbara Savage's lucid and skilled rendering of Tate's story is built on more than a decade of research. Tate's life and work challenge provincial approaches to African American and American history, women's history, the history of education, diplomatic history, and international thought.