Ebony & Ivy
Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities
New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2013.
Format: Book
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Description: 423 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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.
Contents:
Prologue: A Connecticut Yankee at an ancient Indian mound -- 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 -- 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.
Subjects:
Discrimination in higher education -- United States.
Racism in education -- United States.
Slavery -- United States.
Universities and colleges -- United States -- History.
African Americans -- History -- Education (Higher)
Minorities -- Education (Higher) -- United States -- History.
United States -- Race relations.
Discrimination in higher education -- United States.
Racism in education -- United States.
Slavery -- United States.
Universities and colleges -- United States -- History.
African Americans -- History -- Education (Higher)
Minorities -- Education (Higher) -- United States -- History.
United States -- Race relations.
ISBN:
9781596916814
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
EDUCATION College Wil | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
EDUCATION College Wil | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
EDUCATION College Wil | Sandhills Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
EDUCATION College Wil | Southeast | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-408) and index.