Ebony & ivy : race, slavery, and the troubled history of America's universities / Craig Steven Wilde...
Ebony & ivy : race, slavery, and the troubled history of America's universities / Craig Steven Wilde...
Ebony & ivy : race, slavery, and the troubled history of America's universities / Craig Steven Wilder.
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Publisher
New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2013.
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G 2014/1822
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Language
English
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Physical content
423 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Prologue : a Connecticut Yankee at an ancient Indian mound -- Part I. 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 -- Part II. Race and the rise of the American College. Whitening the Promised L...
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Publisher
New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2013.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2013.
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Summary
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.
"A 2006 report commissioned by Brown University revealed that institution's complex and contested involvement in slavery--setting off a controversy that leapt from the ivory tower to make headlines across the country. But Brown's troubling past was far from unique. In Ebony and Ivy, Craig Steven Wilder, a rising star in the profession of history, l...
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Ebony & ivy : race, slavery, and the troubled history of America's universities / Craig Steven Wilder.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2014/1822
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74VKvwzejmdg
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ISBN
1596916818 (alk. paper)
9781596916814 (alk. paper) :
DDC
379.2/6
MMS ID
991021409689702626
