Cover
Half-Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Notes on Language
Introduction
Chapter One: Ascendancy
"Hardly Enough Left to Cover the Bones"
"To Take Ascendancy by Right of Priority"
"Not Counting Indians"
"Swap and Dicker"
"For the Instruction of Young Ladies and Gentlemen"
"We Have Not a Mind to Remove to a Distant Land"
"An Academic Grove Worthy of Plato and His Pupils"
Chapter Two: Dissenters and Heretics
From Slavery to a Black Mecca
Of Segregationists, Assimilationists, and Anti-Racists
"I Want to Be Off for Africa"
"The Narrow Spirit of Sectarianism and Bigotry"
Heretics
"A Live Man, in Every Sense of the Term"
Chapter Three: The Shape of Things
The New White City
The Ivory Tower
"The Negro Problem"
"America for Americans"
Missionary Mindset
"A Sprinkling of Units from Other Ethnic Cultures"
Unbidden
Chapter Four: Behind the Mask
An Indian Prince
Happy Days
"Flagrant Examples of Discrimination Are Everywhere Present"
The Civil Rights Movement as Seen from the Kalamazoo College Campus
"A Great Deal of Patience and Tact"
Chapter Five: "There Is No Innocence"
"Our Uneasy Silence"
"Boiling Water" College
"You Have to Be 'Somebody'"
"Black Is Beautiful"
"Our Time Is Extremely Valuable and Can Be Wasted No Longer"
"You Must Attempt to Stand Where We Are Standing"
"The Most Volatile Act That Can Be Taken"
Chapter Six: The Brick Wall
Backsliding
"Where Are Your Cultural Differences?"
The Quest for Multiculturalism
"The Sun Setting in the West"
Bad Apples
Conclusion: Bending the Arc
About the Author
Index.