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.
She first came to notice as one of the founding members of the Center for Research on Women at the University of Memphis.
[2] Higginbotham is best known for her pioneering study, Too Much To Ask: Black Women in the Era of Integration,[3] and the co-authored, with Margaret L. Andersen, Race and Ethnicity in Society: The Changing Landscape.
[4] In 1993, Higginbotham received the Jessie Bernard Award from the American Sociological Association.