Ebony & ivy : race, slavery, and the troubled history of America's universities / Craig Steven Wilder.
Wilder, Craig Steven, author.
2013
LC212.42 .W53 2013 (Mapit)
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Title
Ebony & ivy : race, slavery, and the troubled history of America's universities / Craig Steven Wilder.
Author
Wilder, Craig Steven, author.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
ISBN
9781596916814 alkaline paper
1596916818 alkaline paper
Published
New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2013.
Language
English
Description
423 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Call Number
LC212.42 .W53 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
379.2/6
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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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