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

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Wilder, Craig Steven, author.
Contributor:
ProQuest ebook central.
James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Discrimination in higher education--United States.
Discrimination in higher education.
Minorities--Education (Higher).
History.
African Americans.
Education, Higher.
United States.
Racism in education--United States.
Racism in education.
Slavery--United States.
Slavery.
Universities and colleges--United States--History.
Universities and colleges.
African Americans--History--Education (Higher).
Minorities--Education (Higher)--United States--History.
Minorities.
United States--Race relations.
Race relations.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (423 pages) : illustrations
Edition:
First U.S. edition.
Other Title:
Ebony and ivy
Place of Publication:
New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2013.
System Details:
text file
Summary:
A groundbreaking and incendiary exploration of the intertwined histories of slavery, racism, and higher education in America, from a leading African-American historian and the author of "A Covenant in Color." Illustrations.
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.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-408) and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
ISBN:
9781608193837
1608193837
Publisher Number:
99985013652
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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