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Ebony & ivy, race, slavery, and the troubled history of America's universities, Craig Steven Wilder

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Ebony & ivy, race, slavery, and the troubled history of America's universities, Craig Steven Wilder

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Ebony & ivy

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

826452230

Responsibility statement

Craig Steven Wilder

Sub title

race, slavery, and the troubled history of America's universities

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

Table Of 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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Ebony and ivy

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