Beatrice Adams

African American History, Migration History, Black Women’s History, African Diaspora History,History of the American South, Slavery and the University

Beatrice J. Adams is a historian of race, migration, and social movements whose research explores how racial and regional identities intersect to shape African Americans’ experiences of freedom and belonging. Her book in progress, We Might as Well Fight at Home:
African Americans Claiming the American South, examines the experiences of African Americans who remained in and returned to the American South during the Great Migration and the emergence of the New Great Migration. She is also the co-editor of the forthcoming
book, Children of the Struggle, a collection of 25 oral histories from members of the 1964 graduating class of Tuskegee Institute High School that explore their families’ decisions to remain in the American South during the Great Migration. Her writing has appeared in Southern
Cultures, Black Perspectives, and the award-winning book series Scarlet and Black. Her research has been supported by the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and the James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference at Emory University

• African American History
• Modern Black Freedom Movement
• Intersectionality: An Intellectual History
• Black-ish: Class in Black American History

Books

We Might as Well Fight at Home: African Americans Claiming the American South (Work-in-progress)

Those Who Stayed:Challenging Jim Crow and Championing Civil Rights in the South(co-edited Sonjia Parker Redmond) (Under Contract)

Book Chapters

‘I Hereby Bequeath…’ Excavating the Enslaved from the Wills of the Early Leaders of Queen’s College” and “From the Classroom to the American Colonization Society: Making Race at Rutgers,” Scarlet and Black: Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History, eds. Marisa Fuentes and Deborah Gray White, Rutgers University Press, 2016.

“The Rutgers Race Man: Early Black Students at Rutgers College,”Scarlet and Black Volume II, Constructing Race and Gender at Rutgers, eds. Marisa Fuentes and Deborah Gray White, Rutgers University Press, 2020.

“A Second Founding: The Black and Puerto Rican Student Revolution at Rutgers-Camden and Rutgers-Newark,”Scarlet and Black Volume III, eds. Marisa Fuentes and Deborah Gray White, Rutgers University Press, Rutgers University Press, 2021.

Digital Scholarship

“Chapter Four: The Gibson Years,” The North: Newark, https://riseupnewark.com/.

“Rutgers African American Alumni Gallery: The Forerunner Generation, Scarlet and Black Digital Archive, Rutgers University, https://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu/archive/exhibits/show/alumni-gallery/introduction.

“Why the New Great Migration Matters?” Black Perspectives, https://www.aaihs.org/why-the-new-great-migration-matters/

Post-Doctoral Fellow, James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference, 2022-2023

 Mellon Graduate Fellowships in the Humanities, Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2020-2021

Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, Graduate Fellow, Black Bodies, 2017-2018

John Hope Franklin Center for Documentary Studies, Research Fellow, Duke University, 2016-
2017