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

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.

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Main Authors: Wilder, Craig Steven
Published: Bloomsbury Press,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: 2013.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Discrimination in higher education > United States
Racism in education > United States
Slavery > United States
Universities and colleges > United States > History
African Americans > Education Higher > History
Minorities > Education Higher > United States > History
United States > Race relations
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.
Carrier Form: 423 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781596916814 :
1596916818
Index Number: LC212
CLC: G649.712
Call Number: G649.712/W673
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 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.

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