Thursday, February 9 2023, 3pm Room 200, conference room History Graduate student meetup with Dr. Garrett-Scott. Please stop by 3-4pm to welcome Dr. Garrett-Scott, and chat. Refreshments will be provided. Professor Shennette Garrett-Scott will be visiting us from Texas A&M to deliver a talk (“All the Other Devils This Side of Hades”: Jim Crow and Early Black Banks) at 12:45 pm in LeConte 101. Shennette Garrett-Scott is committed to recovering and telling little-known stories about African American women’s enterprise, labor, and activism. A historian of gender, race, and capitalism, Dr. Garrett-Scott’s work rethinks Black women’s relationships to the U.S. political economy, particularly their quest for economic and social justice. She is an associate professor of history at Texas A&M University; National Director of the Association of Black Women Historians; senior associate editor of the journal LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History; and author of the multiple award-winning book Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal. Follow her online at sgarrettscott.com and on Twitter at @EbonRebel [pronounced eh-BUN Re-BULL].
