Minnie Bruce Pratt

Minnie Bruce Pratt was an American educator, human rights defender, essayist, poet, university teacher and writer (1946–2023). She was born at Selma and died at Syracuse.

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Career and activity

Minnie Bruce Pratt worked in race, gender, social class, poetry and essay.

She was employed by Syracuse University. She belonged to International Action Center and National Writers Union.

Recognition and collections

Minnie Bruce Pratt received Academy of American Poets, Lucille Medwick Memorial Award, Lambda Literary Award and Audre Lorde Award.

Identity

What the record establishes about Minnie Bruce Pratt.

Minnie Bruce Pratt is recorded with the occupation human rights defender. Minnie Bruce Pratt is recorded with the occupation university teacher. Minnie Bruce Pratt is recorded as a citizen of United States. Bearing life : women's writings on childlessness / edited by Rochelle Ratner. is dated 2001 and held by Wellcome Collection. Minnie Bruce Pratt is recorded as educator, human rights defender, essayist, poet and university teacher. Wellcome Collection records 1 object associated with this heading.

Open Library catalogues 8 works under this name. We say we love each other is dated 1985. The sound of one fork is dated 1981. Rebellion is dated 1991.

Activity and practice

Minnie Bruce Pratt is recorded as having studied at University of Alabama and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Works and catalogued output

Wikidata Query Service catalogues 4 works under this heading. Wellcome Collection catalogues 1 work under this heading. Open Library catalogues 7 works under this heading.

Reception

Minnie Bruce Pratt is recorded as having received Academy of American Poets, Lucille Medwick Memorial Award and Lambda Literary Award.

Authority records

The identifiers under which Minnie Bruce Pratt may be traced in institutional catalogues.

Minnie Bruce Pratt is established in the international name authorities as Social Networks and Archival Context w6nw3snv, Bibliothèque nationale de France 16156631k, Gemeinsame Normdatei (GND) 1051264235, Library of Congress n82027162, ISNI 0000000081477556, IdRef 135263875, VIAF 67803341 and Wikidata Q52433.

Catalogued works

12 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service, Open Library and Wellcome Collection. Their recorded dates run from 1981 to 2001.

Crime Against Nature. Rebellion: Essays 1980-1991. Walking Back Up Depot Street. The Dirt She Ate. Dirt She Ate. S/he. Magnified. Inside the Money Machine. Rebellion, dated 1991. The sound of one fork, dated 1981. We say we love each other, dated 1985. Bearing life : women's writings on childlessness / edited by Rochelle Ratner., dated 2001, held by Wellcome Collection.

In public collections

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 1 named public collection.

Wellcome Collection: 1 recorded object, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Literature

3 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Pratt, Minnie Bruce, Encyclopedia of Motherhood, 2010. Minnie Bruce Pratt, “Identity: Skin, Blood, Heart”, Feminist Theory Reader, 2016. Minnie Bruce Pratt Steps into History, The Women's Review of Books, 1999.

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 8 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 5 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 5 means 5 genuinely separate publishers of record. 13 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

In detail

Minnie Bruce Pratt studied at University of Alabama and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. the recorded working language is English.

The field of work recorded is race, gender and social class.

Employment is recorded with Syracuse University. Membership is recorded of International Action Center and National Writers Union.

Distinctions recorded are Academy of American Poets, Lucille Medwick Memorial Award, Lambda Literary Award and Audre Lorde Award.

Chronology

  1. 1946Minnie Bruce Pratt born at Selma.
  2. 1946Minnie Bruce Pratt was born on 12 September 1946.
  3. 1981The sound of one fork is dated 1981.
  4. 1985We say we love each other is dated 1985.
  5. 1991Rebellion is dated 1991.
  6. 2001Bearing life : women's writings on childlessness / edited by Rochelle Ratner. is dated 2001 and held by Wellcome Collection.
  7. 2005S/He (2005) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
  8. 2023Minnie Bruce Pratt died at Syracuse.
  9. 2023Minnie Bruce Pratt died on 2 July 2023.

Sources

Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.

  1. 1.

    Dedication: Dorothy Allison and Minnie Bruce Pratt, Southern Cultures, 2025

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  2. 2.

    Minnie Bruce Pratt Steps into History, The Women's Review of Books, 1999

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  3. 3.

    Minnie Bruce Pratt, “Identity: Skin, Blood, Heart”, Feminist Theory Reader, 2016

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  4. 4.

    MINNIE BRUCE PRATT, American Poetry Now

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  5. 5.

    Open Library author record for Minnie Bruce Pratt (Internet Archive), 8 catalogued works.

    Institutional database · Scholarly · Internet Archive

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  6. 6.

    Pratt, Minnie Bruce, Encyclopedia of Motherhood, 2010

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  7. 7.

    Directory of Open Access Journals lists 3 articles naming Minnie Bruce Pratt.

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  8. 8.

    Internet Archive, 1 digitised item catalogued under Minnie Bruce Pratt as creator.

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  9. 9.

    Wellcome Collection catalogue records 1 work naming Minnie Bruce Pratt.

    museum collection · Unverified · Wellcome Collection

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  10. 10.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q52433: Minnie Bruce Pratt

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikimedia Foundation

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  11. 11.

    “Minnie Bruce Pratt”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

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