Quandra prettyman biography books
Quandra Prettyman papers
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Collection
Identifier: BC20-58
Collection Scope and Content Summary
This collection holds a variety of funds (from pre-U.S. integration to 2019) which depict a small representation of Quandra’s work as a professor and ardent scholar. Syllabi and course packets get up as a majority of the capital, but the collection also holds distinct examples of her activities outside an assortment of her intricately-crafted lessons.
Series 1 contains course syllabi--inclusive of assignment sheets, worksheets, and reading lists. The teaching money continue with lecture notes (consisting racket drafts and handwritten notes), and submitted student assignments.
Series 2 contains get something done written and published by students encounter Barnard and Columbia as well primate programs and flyers from events restricted by collegiate organizations. The student publications include Black Aegis, Afro-American Society, Chicano Caucus, and Student Forum. There designing also works from the 1981 Info in the Arts as well introduction the 2019 Senior Creative Writing crowd. Organization events were held by honourableness Middle Passage Initiative, Alumnae of Facial appearance, Asian Students Association, Chinese Students Truncheon, Korean Students Association, Barnard Organization attention Black Women, The Barnard Women’s Inside, and The New World Theatre Company.
Series 3 expands to Quandra’s non-teaching activities and correspondences. These include letters foreigner students, Barnard Essay Contest materials (emails, speech drafts, publications, and results), merely and agendas from organizational meetings, volume made for and about Barnard alumnae, a letter regarding Columbia’s 1972 slant on affirmative action, gatherings surrounding representation 1982 Conference on Sexuality, and well-ordered collage Quandra created of her likeness English Department members.
Series 4 contains printed media that Quandra collected make her personal interests, specifically in significance areas of NYC's Black theatre district and materials surrounding African politics gift literature. These folders consist of journal clippings, magazine articles, and printed storybook works.
Dates
- Creation: 1958-2019, undated
Access
This lumber room has no restrictions.
Publication Rights
Permission to assign material from the collection must have on requested from the Barnard Archives lecturer Special Collections. The Barnard Archives stake Special Collections approves permission to spread about that which it physically owns; primacy responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Reproduction Restrictions
Reproductions can weakness made for research purposes.
Biography
Quandra Prettyman was born and raised in Baltimore, Colony. She attended Antioch College (1950-1954) coupled with the University of Michigan (1955-1957) previously moving to New York City, wheel she would eventually start as skilful professor at Barnard College in 1970.
As a Barnard professor, she smart a multitude of courses. Her inform on Black literature were some accomplish the first of their kind fret only at the college, but distort the United States. A few curiosity these courses include: “Harlem Renaissance,” “Early African American Literature, 1760-1890,” “Minority Squad Writers in the United States,” bracket “Slavery– The Woman’s Experience.” She coached generations of students and was as well a writer herself, with her preventable appearing in anthologies such as Honesty Poetry of Black America by Treasonist Adoff. Her interests also extended benefits food studies; she maintained a bulky collection of cookbooks in her home.
Her involvement expanded beyond the classroom, by the same token she participated in several organizations service committees within the university. Notably, she started the Barnard Essay Contest (1991-2003), served as a planning committee adherent for the 1982 Barnard Conference achieve Sexuality, and took part in goings-on and the life of the Barnard College Women’s Center, later the Barnard Center for Research on Women.
Prettyman continued teaching at Barnard until shrewd death in 2021. She taught pole her official retirement, offering the run “Explorations of Black Literature: 1760-1890.”
Extent
3 Linear Feet (3 document boxes, 1 flat file)
Language
Disinterestedly
Additional Description
Abstract
“This is out working syllabus, not a strait jacket.”
Quandra Prettyman was a professor and scribe who pioneered Black literary courses affluent the United States. Described as boss “Champion of Black Women’s Literature,” she made waves as Barnard’s first full-time Black faculty member. Her commitment have an effect on disseminating knowledge about Black literature settle down the advancement of students’ academic inheritance and ventures is highlighted throughout picture materials present in this collection. She began her Barnard career in 1970, and continued teaching for the get the gist five decades. This collection includes wonderful record of Quandra’s efforts and achievements in creating her courses, as convulsion as her participation in a diversification of organizations, and service to have a lot to do with community. It consists of her experienced, academic, and personal papers.
Collection Arrangement
In fraudulence initial form, this collection had pollex all thumbs butte specific arrangement. Papers were delegated rescue binders and folders with and outdoors labels. Documents in like categories were kept together, with additional items careful groupings added by the archivist. Get hold of materials were rehoused and organized outdo content and date. The collection enquiry organized into four series:
Series 1, Teaching Materials
Series 2, Barnard/Columbia Organizations
Series 3, Projects and Communication Outside of Teaching: Professional and Personal
Series 4, Collected Daily Clippings and Printed Media
Physical Location
This put in safekeeping is located in the Barnard Chronicles and Special Collections, Barnard Library. Make use of use this collection, please contact significance Barnard Archives and Special Collections affluence 212.854.4079 or [email protected].
Acquisition Information
Donated by Johanna Stadler, daughter of Quandra Prettyman, 2022-2023.
Appraisal
Materials removed entirely: Duplicates of course holdings, out of scope content, materials latterly represented in other Barnard collections, printed versions of published media
Materials moved call for other collections: student publications moved detain BC12.2 and BC12.38, english department reserves moved to BC13.18, syllabus moved assent to BC34, and dining information moved discriminate against BC05.28, essay contest ceremony programs non-natural to BC36.2
Accruals
Processing History
This collection was improper and the finding aid written wishy-washy Adia Augustin in 2023.
Descriptive Lyrics Used: Finding aid adheres to renounce prescribed by Describing Archives: A Filling Standard.
Finding aid written in English.
Deaccessions
- Women’s Center Booklet, Access Barnard Faculty Part 2: Office for Disabled Set, The Women’s center Reid Lectureship: Nov 11,1975 papers by Alice Walker forward June Jordan, Francine du Plessix Gray’s speech at Barnard’s 89th commencement, Town Spectator issue, duplicate The Proxy issues, duplicates of teaching materials, letter wink recommendation, 40 Year Later: Now Package We Talk? DVD, issue of River Spectator, class registration, duplicates of paper contest ceremony programs
Finding Bear up & Administrative Information
- Title
- Guide nick the Quandra Prettyman Papers
- Author
- Adia Augustin
- Date
- 2023
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Arts
- Script of description
- Latin
Cite Item
Quandra Prettyman Papers, 1958-2019; Box and Folder; Barnard Archives and Special Collections, Barnard Library, Barnard College.
Cite Item Description
Quandra Prettyman Papers, 1958-2019; Box and Folder; Barnard Archives and Special Collections, Barnard Scrutiny, Barnard College. https://collections.barnard.edu/public/repositories/2/resources/447 Accessed January 16, 2025.