Participant Info
- First Name
- Crystal
- Last Name
- Webster
- Country
- United States
- State
- TX Texas
- crystal.webster@utsa.edu
- Affiliation
- University of Texas at San Antonio
- Website URL
- http://history.utsa.edu/faculty/crystal-webster
- Keywords
- African American history, women's history, childhood studies, Black girlhood
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am a historian of African American women and children in early American history.
- Recent Publications
Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood: African American Children’s Political and Cultural Resistance
Book Manuscript Under Consideration
Journal Articles
“In Pursuit of Autonomous Womanhood: Nineteenth Century Black Maternal Mourning and Motherhood in the U.S. North,” Slavery & Abolition, May, 2017
Book Chapters
“Bringing Depth to the Movement: Georgia McMurray and the Multi-Dimensionality of Black Women’s Activism,” chapter in edited collection, “It’s Our Movement Now”: Black Women’s Politics and the 1977 National Women’s Conference, University of Massachusetts Press, July 2018, ed. Laura L. Lovett and Rachel Jessica Daniel, Under Review
Book Reviews
Review of Who Writes for Black Children?: African America Children’s Literature before 1900, ed. Katherine Capshaw and Anna Mae Duane. Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. October, 2018
Public Scholarship
Contributor, “History of Childhood & Youth Roundtable,” The Junto: A Group Blog on Early American History, November, 2018
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- twitter.com/Crystallynnweb
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century
- Expertise by Topic
- American Civil War, Children & Youth, Emancipation, Gender, Race, Sexuality, Slavery
