Audrey Thomas McCluskey is an American writer and professor emeriti. She is an alumna of Indiana University where she was an African-American and African Diaspora Studies professor.[1]
She received a B.A. magna cum laude from Clark Atlanta University, an M.A. in African Studies, from Howard University, and a Ph.D. in Historical and Comparative Education from Indiana University.[1]
She wrote the book Forgotten Sisterhood about four influential female African American educators in the South.[2] She was interviewed by a National Park Service Ranger about her research and books on Mary McLeod Bethune.[3] She edited a book of interviews with South African filmmakers.[4] She has also written articles and book reviews.[5]
She was a panelist in the City of Bloomington, Indiana's "Women of Color in the Workplace" Roundtable Discussion. She was a guest on WFHB's "Bring It On". She spoke about her book Imaging Blackness: Race and Racial Representation in Film Poster Art at the NMBCC Library's 10th annual Library Evening Extravanza.[6] She reviewed Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954: An Intellectual History by Stephanie Y. Evans.[7]
Writings
“Mary McLeod Bethune and the Education of Black Girls in the South, 1904–1923”, Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University (1991)
Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World, Essays and selected documents co-edited with Elaine M. Smith Indiana University Press (1999)[8][9]
Imaging Blackness: Race And Racial Representation in Film Poster Art (2007)
Richard Pryor: The Life and Legend of a ‘Crazy’ Black Man (2008)
The Devil You Dance With; Film Culture in the New South Africa, editor and introduction, University of Illinois Press (2010)[10]
A Forgotten Sisterhood; Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South (2014)[11][12]
Articles
"Ringing Up a School: Mary McLeod Bethune's Impact on Daytona" Florida Historical Quarterly (1994)[13]
