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    • I Am Not My Hair: Reclaiming Black Beauty 
      Hankins, Rebecca; Hankins, Salimah (2019-05-01)
      This poster explores the hairstyles and hair stories of Black women in America. The images follow a historical chronology from the legacy of slavery to these contemporary times. Black women have both struggled to conform ...
    • LGBTQ+ History and Collections brochure 
      Hankins, Rebecca; Reibenspies, Jennifer M.; Marini, Francesca, Ph.D.; Bailey, Gregory; Jackson, Michael; Anderson, Hillary, Ph.D. (Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, TAMU, 2018-06-26)
      The brochure includes both collections and a chart of the LGBTQ historical events at Texas A&M University. The timeline was developed by Dr. Hillary A. Anderson as she processed the LGBTQ Archives in Cushing. The timeline ...
    • Meeting Our Users Where They Conference: A Texas A&M Model to Support Librarian Attendance at Subject-Specific Conferences 
      Seeger, Christina; Wan, Gary; Hankins, Rebecca; Melgoza, Pauline (Public Services Quarterly, 2009-04-01)
      Today’s academic librarian is frequently called upon to function as a subject specialist, with or without advanced degrees in other disciplines. One method of monitoring trends within a given field is to study its ...
    • Oral History, Civil Rights and the Archival Role 
      Hankins, Rebecca (Dr. Clyde Robertson; New Orleans Public Schools, 2004-07-19)
      The years 2003 to 2006 will witness the anniversaries of many of the events that represent the Modern Civil Rights Movement. With the 50th anniversary celebration of the historic Brown v Board decision, the court order ...
    • Oral Tradition in Historical Research 
      Hankins, Rebecca (International Oral History Association Proceedings, 2004-06)
      This article will chronicle how those professionals called archivist, charged with collecting, preserving, and making primary source materials including oral history resources available to the public, view their role in ...
    • The Peculiar Institution: The Depiction of Slavery in Steven Barnes’s Lion’s Blood and Zulu Heart 
      Hankins, Rebecca (Lexington Books, 2016-03-11)
      Steven Barnes’s Lion’s Blood (2002) and its sequel Zulu Heart (2003) combine Africa, Islam and Muslims to show positive and negative sides of what would have happened if whites were the enslaved and blacks were the slave ...
    • Racial Realism or Foolish Optimism: An African American Muslim Woman in the Field 
      Hankins, Rebecca (Library Juice Press, 2016-01-21)
      This essay discusses a number of identity issues related to what people of color experience in American society, with a particular focus on Derrick Bell's concept of racial realism. The essay looks at Bell's theory as it ...
    • Reel Muslim Women: The Depiction of Muslim Women on Film and TV 
      Hankins, Rebecca (2019-05-01)
      This poster explores the depiction of Muslim women in film and on television. Hollywood has often portrayed Muslim women as angry, insensitive mothers, sisters, and daughters in dramas such as The Bodyguard and American ...
    • Uncovering Black Feminist Writers 1963-90: An Evaluation of Their Coverage in Research Tools 
      Hankins, Rebecca (American Library Association, Reference & User Services Quarterly, 2009-03)
      Has the move toward online resources had an effect on source material for the study of black feminist theory? The last forty years have witnessed a critical mass of literary and theoretical writings on the black feminist ...