Creating community : life and learning at Montgomery's Black university / edited by Karl E. Westhauser, Elaine M. Smith, and Jennifer A. Fremlin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Westhauser, Karl E. (Karl Edwin), 1961-

Smith, Elaine M., 1942-

Fremlin, Jennifer A. (Jennifer Anne), 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alabama State University--History.

Alabama State University.

Alabama State University--Faculty--Anecdotes.

African American universities and colleges--Alabama--Montgomery--History.

African American universities and colleges.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A community of inquiry and pride in central Alabama. Creating Community explores how faculty members at Alabama State University, a historically black university in Montgomery, have been inspired by the legacy of African American culture and the civil rights movement and how they seek to interpret and extend that legacy through teaching, scholarship, and service. Authors describe a wide range of experiences from the era of segregation to the present day. T

Contents:

You can go home again / Kathy Dunn Jackson

E pluribus unum : discovering multiculturalism / Virginia M. Jones

Genesis of the National Center for the Study of Civil Rights and African-American Culture / Janice R. Franklin

I go to college / Frank E. Moorer

Living a womanist legacy / Elaine M. Smith

I pledge allegiance to my "black-eyed susan" university / Annie P. Markham

Portrait of the artist as a young white man / Robert Ely

City on a hill / Karl E. Westhauser

Called home / Margaret Holler Stephens

"You're not white, you're Canadian" : where I belong / Jennifer A. Fremlin

The color brown : an Asian's perspective / Sunita George.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-165) and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8042-6

OCLC:

190811193