Johnnetta Cole

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Johnnetta B. Cole

Johnnetta Betsch Cole (born October 19, 1936 in Jacksonville , Florida ) is an American anthropologist and museum director of the National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC Cole was the first African-American president of Spelman College from 1987 to 1997 . She was President of Bennett College from 2002 to 2007 .

Life

Johnnetta Betsch was born in Florida in 1936. Her grandfather was Abraham Lincoln Lewis , who became the state's first African American millionaire as an insurance entrepreneur. Her great-great-grandfather was the slave trader Zephaniah Kingsley , who married the African-born slave Anna Madgigine Jai .

At the age of 15, Cole enrolled at Fisk University . She later moved to Oberlin College in Ohio, where she earned a bachelor's degree in anthropology in 1957 . Two years later, she successfully completed her master’s degree from Northwestern University . 1960/61 she spent doing fieldwork in Liberia .

In 1982, Cole divorced her first husband, economist Robert Cole, and married Arthur J. Robinson Jr. in 1988. They have three sons and two stepons.

science

Cole briefly taught at the University of California in Los Angeles in 1964 . In 1967 she received her doctorate in anthropology and was then responsible for the Black Studies program at Washington State University in 1969/70 . In 1970 she started at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst , where she was employed until 1983. From 1981 to 1983 she was also Provost for her undergraduate studies . She also played a central role in establishing the Department of African-American Studies ( WEB Du Bois Department of African-American Studies ).

In 1983 Cole moved to Hunter College , where she directed the Latin American and Caribbean Studies program. In 1987, Cole became the first black woman president of the prestigious Spelman College for African American women. From 1997, Cole was Professor of Anthropology at Emory University . From 2002, Cole headed Bennett College , which also has African American women studying.

In 2009, Cole was appointed director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC. She will resign in March 2017.

In her academic work, she mainly deals with the social disadvantages of ethnic minorities and women.

management

Cole served on the board of directors of Merck & Co. from 1994 to 2009. She was also the first woman to serve on the board of directors of the Coca Cola Company . Cole was the chairman of the board of directors of the United Way of America charity .

politics

The newly elected President Bill Clinton appointed Cole to his transition team in 1992 to prepare for his presidency. Cole should take care of education, culture and work. Clinton originally wanted to appoint her Minister of Education, but after reports by The Jewish Daily Forward that she had been a member of the National Committee of the Venceremos Brigades , which the FBI assumed to be close to Cuban intelligence, Clinton refused to make a nomination.

Fonts (selection)

Author

  • Dream the Boldest Dreams: And Other Lessons of Life . Longstreet Press, Atlanta 1997
  • Conversations: Straight Talk with America's Sister President . Doubleday Books, 1994
  • All American Women: Lines that Divide, Ties that Bind . Free Press, 1986
  • Race toward equality . J. Marti Pub. House, Havana 1986
  • Free and Equal: the End of Racial Discrimination in Cuba . Venceremos Brigade, 1978
  • Dream the boldest dreams: and other lessons of life . Longstreet Press, Atlanta 1997
  • Gender Tal: the Struggle For Women's Equality in African American Communities . One World / Ballantine, 2009

Editor

  • Black Feminist Anthropology: Theory, Politics, Praxis, and Poetics . Rutgers University Press, 2001
  • Anthropology for the Nineties: Introductory Readings . Simon and Schuster, 1988
  • Anthropology for the Eighties: Introductory Readings . Free Press, 1982

honors and awards

Web links

  • Biography at Voices from the Gaps at the University of Minnesota
  • Johnnetta Cole . Video portrait at Makers: Women Who Make America
  • Biography at Spelman College

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Antoinette Jackson, Allan Burns: Ethnohistorical Study of the Kingsley Plantation Community , National Park Service , 2006, p. 24
  2. ↑ a b Full biography from the University of Minnesota, accessed February 27, 2017 (PDF)
  3. ↑ a b c Jacqueline Trescott: Johnnetta Cole Named New Director of the National Museum of African Art , Washington Post , 10. February 2009
  4. ↑ Peggy McGlone: African Art Museum Director Cole will retire in March , Washington Post, December 14, 2016
  5. ↑ Cole ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the National Museum of African Art @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / africa.si.edu
  6. ↑ Cole ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at findthecompany.com, accessed February 27, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / executives.findthecompany.com
  7. ^ Roger Mezger: Workplace diversity: Numbers aren't enough, speaker says , The Plain Dealer , September 5, 2008
  8. ^ A new female first . Glamor, April 2004, Vol. 102, No. 4, p. 39
  9. ↑ Susan Chira: Conversations / Johnnetta B. Cole; A Scholar's Convictions Keep Her Pushing the Power of Words , New York Times, Jan. 10, 1993
  10. ↑ Candace Awards Recipients 1982–1990 , page 2 , WebArchive version dated March 14, 2003 from the website of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women
  11. ^ Phi Beta Kappa Society-Delta Chapter , accessed February 27, 2017
  12. ↑ 39. Triennial Council ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Phi Beta Kappa Bulletin (PDF) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pbk.org
  13. ^ Sit-in museum to present awards , The Winston-Salem Chronicle, February 1, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Cole, Johnnetta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cole, Johnnetta Betsch (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American anthropologist and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Jacksonville , Florida