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'''Elizabeth Higginbotham''' is a sociologist of race, gender and class. She received her undergraduate degree from City College of New York and her doctorate from Brandeis University. In 1980 Higginbotham received a Ford Foundation postdoctoral fellowship. She first came to notice as one of the founding members of the Center for Research on Women at the University of Memphis.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Center for Research on Women|title=Center for Research on Women|url=https://umwa.memphis.edu/campusmap/index.php/welcome/bldg_dept/13/396|url-status=live|website=Research on Women (CROW), Center for|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513174923/https://umwa.memphis.edu/campusmap/index.php/welcome/bldg_dept/13/396 |archive-date=2021-05-13 }}</ref> After a career that included stints at Columbia University and the University of Memphis, she is now professor of social policy and justice and faculty scholar emerita of the Center for Diversity at the University of Delaware.<ref name="delaware">{{cite web |title=Elizabeth Higginbotham |url=https://www.csd.udel.edu/people/staff/ehiggin?uid=ehiggin&Name=Elizabeth%20Higginbotham |website=www.csd.udel.edu |publisher=University of Delaware |access-date=14 May 2021 |archive-date=14 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210514104337/https://www.csd.udel.edu/people/staff/ehiggin?uid=ehiggin&Name=Elizabeth%20Higginbotham |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Higginbotham is best known for her pioneering study, ''Too Much To Ask: Black Women in the Era of Integration'',<ref>{{Cite book|last=Higginbotham|first=Elizabeth|title=Too Much To Ask: Black Women in the Era of Integration|publisher=University of North Carolina Press|year=2001|isbn=0-8078-4989-8}}</ref> and the co-authored, with Margaret L. Andersen, ''Race and Ethnicity in Society: The Changing Landscape''.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Higginbotham|first=Elizabeth|title=Race and Ethnicity in Society: The Changing Landscape Fourth Edition|publisher=Chegg|year=2016|isbn=978-1305093898}}</ref> In 1993, Higginbotham received the Jessie Bernard Award from the American Sociological Association.<ref>{{cite web |title=Jessie Bernard Award |url=https://www.asanet.org/about/awards/jessie-bernard-award |website=American Sociological Association |access-date=8 June 2021}}</ref>
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