Scarlet and Black, Volume Three : Making Black Lives Matter at Rutgers, 1945-2020.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carey, Miya.

Contributor:

Fuentes, Marisa J.

White, Deborah Gray.

Orozco, Roberto C.

Rael, Carie.

Thomas, Brooke A.

Gavigan, Ian.

Walker, Pamela N.

Williams, Joseph.

Esty, Kaisha.

Funded by Rutgers University, funder.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 pages)

Other Title:

Scarlet and Black, Volume Three

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2021.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The 250th anniversary of the founding of Rutgers University is a perfect moment for the Rutgers community to reconcile its past, and acknowledge its role in the enslavement and debasement of African Americans and the disfranchisement and elimination of Native American people and culture. Scarlet and Black, Volume Three, concludes this groundbreaking documentation of the history of Rutgers’s connection to slavery, which was neither casual nor accidental—nor unusual. Like most early American colleges, Rutgers depended on slaves to build its campuses and serve its students and faculty; it depended on the sale of black people to fund its very existence. This final of three volumes concludes the work of the Committee on Enslaved and Disenfranchised Population in Rutgers History. This latest volume includes essays about Black and Puerto Rican students' experiences; the development of the Black Unity League; the Conklin Hall takeover; the divestment movement against South African apartheid; anti-racism struggles during the 1990s; and the Don Imus controversy and the 2007 Scarlet Knights women's basketball team. To learn more about the work of the Committee on Enslaved and Disenfranchised Population in Rutgers History, visit the project's website at http://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Scarlet and Black

Introduction

PART I Prelude to Change

Circa 1944–1970

1 Twenty-Twenty Vision:

2 Rutgers and New Brunswick:

3 “Tell It Like It Is”:

4 Black and Puerto Rican Student Experiences and Their Movements at Douglass College, 1945–1974

PART II Student Protest and Forceful Change

A History of Black and Puerto Rican Student Organizing across Rutgers University Campuses, 1950–1985

5 A Second Founding: The Black and Puerto Rican Student Revolution at Rutgers–Camden and Rutgers–Newark

6 Equality in Higher Education:

7 The Black Unity League:

8 “We the People”:

PART III Making Black Lives Matter beyond Rutgers, 1973–2007

Making Black Lives Matter beyond Rutgers, 1973–2007

9 “It’s Happening in Our Own Backyard”:

10 Fight Racism, End Apartheid:

11 “Hell No, Our Genes Aren’t Slow!”:

12 “Pure Grace”:

Epilogue:

Acknowledgments

Notes

List of Contributors

About the Editors

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781978827332

1978827334

9781978827349

1978827342

OCLC:

1247658110