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Ebony & ivy : race, slavery, and the troubled history of America's universities / Craig Steven Wilder.

By: Wilder, Craig Steven [author.].
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2013Edition: First U.S. edition.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: 423 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781596916814 (alk. paper) :; 1596916818 (alk. paper).Other title: Ebony and ivy.Subject(s): Discrimination in higher education -- United States | Racism in education -- United States | Slavery -- United States | Universities and colleges -- United States -- History | African Americans -- Education (Higher) History | Minorities -- Education (Higher) -- United States -- History | United States -- Race relationsDDC classification: 379.2/6
Contents:
Prologue : a Connecticut Yankee at an ancient Indian mound -- Part I. Slavery and the rise of the American college. The edges of the empire -- "Bonfires of the Negros" -- "The very name of a West-Indian" -- Ebony and ivy -- Part II. Race and the rise of the American College. Whitening the Promised Land -- "All students & all Americans" -- "On the bodily and mental inferiority of the Negro" -- "Could they be sent back to Africa" -- Epilogue : cotton comes to Harvard.
Summary: A leading African American historian of race in America exposes the uncomfortable truths about race, slavery, and the American academy, revealing that leading universities, dependent on human bondage, became breeding grounds for the racist ideas that sustained it.
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Two Weeks Davenport Library Circulating Collection Print-Circulating 379.26 W645 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34284003485901

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue : a Connecticut Yankee at an ancient Indian mound -- Part I. Slavery and the rise of the American college. The edges of the empire -- "Bonfires of the Negros" -- "The very name of a West-Indian" -- Ebony and ivy -- Part II. Race and the rise of the American College. Whitening the Promised Land -- "All students & all Americans" -- "On the bodily and mental inferiority of the Negro" -- "Could they be sent back to Africa" -- Epilogue : cotton comes to Harvard.

A leading African American historian of race in America exposes the uncomfortable truths about race, slavery, and the American academy, revealing that leading universities, dependent on human bondage, became breeding grounds for the racist ideas that sustained it.

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