Facing Inaccuracy Claims, Historian Kerri Greenidge Points to Bias Against Black Female Scholars

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Kerri Greenidge’s celebrated 2022 book, “The Grimkes,” which explores three generations of the history of the prominent slaveholding family, is now under heavy scrutiny, with scholars arguing it contains factual inaccuracies, nonexistent citations, and misattributed source materials.

Greenidge is an American historian who was a tenured associate professor at Tufts University in the Department of Studies in race, colonialism, and diaspora.

As a result of the controversy, she may have lost a book deal last month, according to the New York Times. Greenidge’s university email is now defunct and she does not have publicly listed contact information. She did not respond to The College Fix’s request for comment on LinkedIn.

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A July 16 article in the Boston Globe states Tufts first began a review of Greenidge’s work in 2022. In 2024, the city of Boston selected Greenidge to help write a report on reparations, but that report has been delayed as a result of the controversy, bypassing a June 2026 deadline, the newspaper reported.

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In 2024, retired historian Myra Glenn detailed her concerns for John Hopkins University Press detailing discrepancies in Greenidge’s book.

“Although well-written, ‘The Grimkes’ is also a deeply flawed book. All too often Greenidge lacks the evidence to substantiate many of her major claims. Her work is also riddled with factual errors and repeatedly omits needed endnotes,” Glenn wrote.

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“The Grimkes” has been removed from the publisher’s website, and on Greenidge’s website, and she was removed as a possible winner for the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, which was also removed from the American Historical Association’s homepage.

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