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Barbara J.

Fields
Barbara Jeanne Fields (born 1947) is an American
historian. She is a professor of American history at Barbara J. Fields
Columbia University.[1] Her focus is on the history of
the American South, 19th century social history, and
the transition to capitalism in the United States.

Life
Barbara Fields was born in Charleston, South Carolina,
in 1947,[2] and was raised in Washington, D.C., where
she attended Morgan Elementary School, Banneker
Junior High School, and Western High School.[3] She
received her B.A. from Harvard University in 1968,
and her Ph.D. from Yale University in 1978. At Yale,
she was one of the last doctoral students of C. Vann
Woodward, one of the preeminent American historians
Fields in 2013
of the twentieth century. She appears in Ken Burns'
documentary series, The Civil War and The Born Barbara Jeanne Fields
Congress.[4][5] 1947 (age 76–77)
Awards John H. Dunning Prize (1986)
Fields was the first African American woman to earn Lincoln Prize (1994)
tenure at Columbia University. She has also taught at
Northwestern University, the University of Michigan, Academic background
and the University of Mississippi. She is widely known Alma mater Harvard University (BA)
for her 1990 essay, "Slavery, Race and Ideology in the Yale University (PhD)
United States of America."[6] She authored the 2012 Academic work
book Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American
Institutions Columbia University
Life (along with her sister Karen Fields, a
Northwestern University
sociologist).[7][8][9][5] The book argues that race is a University of Michigan
product of racism; that racism is an ideology and a way
University of Mississippi
of misunderstanding social reality; and that racecraft in
American society serves to obfuscate the actual
dynamics of inequality.[9]
Bard College awarded Fields an honorary doctorate in May 2007. She received the Philolexian Award for
Distinguished Literary Achievement in 2017. Thavolia Glymph considers Fields one of the nation’s
greatest historians.[10]

Awards
1992 MacArthur Fellows Program[5]
1986 John H. Dunning Prize of the American Historical Association, for Slavery and
Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland during the Nineteenth Century
Founders Prize of the Confederate Memorial Literary Society, for The Destruction of Slavery
Thomas Jefferson Prize of the Society for the History of the Federal Government, for The
Destruction of Slavery
1994 Lincoln Prize by the Lincoln and Soldiers Institute at Gettysburg College, for Free At
Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Emancipation, and the Civil War

Works
"Slavery, Race and Ideology in the United States of America" (https://newleftreview.org/issue
s/I181/articles/barbara-jeanne-fields-slavery-race-and-ideology-in-the-united-states-of-ameri
ca), New Left Review, Issue 181, May/June 1990
"Whiteness, Racism and Identity" (http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayFulltext?type=
1&fid=92982&jid=ILW&volumeId=60&issueId=-1&aid=92981), International Labor &
Working-Class History, Issue 60, Fall 2001
"Origins of the New South and the Negro Question", Journal of Southern History, Vol 67 No
4, November 2001
"Of Rogues and Geldings" (https://web.archive.org/web/20101217063941/http://www.history
cooperative.org/journals/ahr/108.5/fields.html), American Historical Review, Vol 180 No 5,
December 2003
Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland during the Nineteenth Century (Yale
University Press, 1985), ISBN 0-300-04032-6
The Destruction of Slavery (Cambridge University Press, 1985), Editors Ira Berlin, Barbara
J. Fields, Thavolia Glymph, Joseph P. Reidy, Leslie S. Rowland, ISBN 978-0-521-13214-5
Slaves No More: Three Essays on the Emancipation and the Civil War (Cambridge
University Press, 1992) ISBN 978-0-521-43102-6
Free At Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Emancipation, and the Civil War (The New
Press, 1992) ISBN 978-1-56584-015-7
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life (Verso, 2012), with Karen Fields,
ISBN 978-1844679942

References
1. "Fields, Barbara" (https://history.columbia.edu/faculty/fields-barbara/). 31 August 2016.
2. "MacArthur Foundation" (https://www.macfound.org/fellows/460/). www.macfound.org.
Retrieved 2018-05-11.
3. "Barbara J. Fields" (https://web.archive.org/web/20110411054403/http://library.buffalo.edu/e
xhibits/ForeverFree/bio_fields.htm). Archived from the original (http://library.buffalo.edu/exhi
bits/ForeverFree/bio_fields.htm) on 2011-04-11. Retrieved 2010-04-14.
4. "Barbara Fields" (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2719095/). IMDb. Retrieved 2020-10-06.
5. Torres, Mo (2022). "Against Race, Toward the Abolition of Racism" (http://journals.sagepub.c
om/doi/10.1177/23326492221136168). Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. 9: 124–127.
doi:10.1177/23326492221136168 (https://doi.org/10.1177%2F23326492221136168).
ISSN 2332-6492 (https://search.worldcat.org/issn/2332-6492). S2CID 253329204 (https://ap
i.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:253329204).
6. Fields, Barbara Jeanne (1990). "Slavery, race and ideology in the United States of America"
(https://newleftreview.org/issues/I181/articles/barbara-jeanne-fields-slavery-race-and-ideolo
gy-in-the-united-states-of-america). New Left Review. 181: 95–118.
7. Denvir, Daniel (17 Jan 2018). "Barbara and Karen Fields discuss their new book,
"Racecraft" " (https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168044). historynewsnetwork.org.
Retrieved 2020-10-06.
8. Magubane, Zine (2022). "Exposing the Conjuror's Tricks: Barbara Fields's Sociological
Imagination" (http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23326492221136165). Sociology of
Race and Ethnicity. 9: 128–132. doi:10.1177/23326492221136165 (https://doi.org/10.117
7%2F23326492221136165). ISSN 2332-6492 (https://search.worldcat.org/issn/2332-6492).
S2CID 253342715 (https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:253342715).
9. Heideman, Paul (2022). "Racecraft as a Challenge to the Sociology of Race" (http://journals.
sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23326492221136164). Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. 9: 119–
123. doi:10.1177/23326492221136164 (https://doi.org/10.1177%2F23326492221136164).
ISSN 2332-6492 (https://search.worldcat.org/issn/2332-6492). S2CID 253326167 (https://ap
i.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:253326167).
10. https://www.historians.org/perspectives-article/deeply-rooted-meet-thavolia-glymph-the-
2024-aha-president-january-2024/

External links
"Presentation given by historian Barbara J. Fields at a "School" (https://www.pbs.org/race/00
0_About/002_04-background-02-02.htm), RACE, March 2001
2011 C-SPAN talk by Barbara Fields recorded in Charleston, South Carolina. (https://www.c-
span.org/video/?299061-1/cared-states-rights)

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