The making of a Black scholar : from Georgia to the Ivy League / by Horace A. Porter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Porter, Horace A., 1950-

Series:

Singular lives.

Singular lives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Biography.

African Americans.

African American scholars--Biography.

African American scholars.

African American college students--Biography.

African American college students.

African Americans--Education (Higher)--History--20th century.

African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.

Columbus (Ga.)--Biography.

Columbus (Ga.).

Porter, Horace A., 1950-.

Porter, Horace A.

Porter, Horace A., 1950---Childhood and youth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (173 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This captivating and illuminating book is a memoir of a young black man moving from rural Georgia to life as a student and teacher in the Ivy League as well as a history of the changes in American education that developed in response to the civil rights movement, the war in Vietnam, and affirmative action. Born in 1950, Horace Porter starts out in rural Georgia in a house that has neither electricity nor running water. In 1968, he leaves his home in Columbus, Georgia-thanks to an academic scholarship to Amherst College-and lands in an upper-class, mainly white world. Focusing on such

Contents:

A Note to Readers; Good-bye Columbus: Leaving Home in 1968; 1 : The Georgia Farm: 1950 -1959; 2 : Three Georgia Schools: Claflin, Marshall, Spencer; 3 : Scholarship Kid: My Freshman Year at Amherst; 4 : Light Up the World:Amherst College and Morehouse College; 5 : Black and Blue: Graduate School at Yale University; 6 : Inner City Blues: Detroit's Wayne State University; 7 : Paradise Lost: Dartmouth College, 1979-1990; Reflections on Stanford University: "The Farm"; Acknowledgments; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-58729-437-0

OCLC:

56109459