Seeking Trust and Commitment in Women's Interracial Collaboration in the Nineteenth Century and Today

[...]we also understand that such projects are often situated within an extra-national context, so that, for instance, a mediated anti-slavery text created within the United States could also be in dialogue with a parallel text like that generated by Mary Prince and Susanna Strickland in England.1 So, too, given the circulation of scholarly texts in digital formats today, any account of academic women's interracial collaborations now could be shaped by and potentially speak to a broader, transnational audience. [...]readers will note our efforts to situate US women's interracial collaborations in an interactive global context. By generating this essay together, we have affirmed that women's interracial collaboration merits careful critique, refined our individual research projects, developed approaches to learning about interracial collaboration from examining our own practices, and identified questions for future research. [...]our essay falls into several sections: an overview of our engagement with previous scholarship to examine the place of race in women's collaborative writing in recent decades, descriptions of our individual research projects on nineteenthcentury interracial collaborations, and an autoethnographic account of our collaborative process.