Dr. Kibibi V. Mack-Shelton
Tyler & Alice Haynes Professor of American Studies and Associate
Professor of History
(804) 287-6374
kmackshe@richmond.edu
Topics: African Americans and education; African Americans and affirmative action; African Americans and employment; African Americans and culture, entertainment and media images; African Americans and reparations; African Americans and racism and segregation; African Americans and gender issues; African Americans and family and youth
Mack-Shelton holds a B.A. from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, an M.A. in history from Northwestern University, and a Ph.D. in history from Suny - Binghamton University. Her dissertation looked at class divisions and African American women's work in Orangeburg, S.C.
She is author of Parlor Ladies and Ebony Drudges: African American Women, Class and Work in a South Carolina Community, and is working on a book on Alice Jackson. She edited the three-volume Racial and Ethnic Relations in America and has written 28 entries in The African American Encyclopedia. In addition, she has written four books for youth.
For more information on Mack-Shelton, please visit the Richmond Research Institute.