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

First U.S. edition.

Wilder, Craig Steven.

Publisher:	Bloomsbury Press,
Pub date:	2013.
Pages:	423 pages :
ISBN:	9781596916814
	1 copy available at University of Alberta - Rutherford Library.

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University of Alberta - Rutherford Library
	Copy	Material	Location
LC 212.42 W53 2013	1	Book	Due: 9/27/2024
LC 212.42 W53 2013	1	Book	On Shelf

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Ebony & ivy : race, slavery, and the troubled history of America's universities First U.S. edition.
Wilder, Craig Steven.

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Ebony & ivy : race, slavery, and the troubled history of America's universities First U.S. edition.
Wilder, Craig Steven.

Personal Author:	Wilder, Craig Steven.
Title:	Ebony & ivy : race, slavery, and the troubled history of America's universities / Craig Steven Wilder.
Edition:	First U.S. edition.
Publication:	New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2013.
Physical description:	423 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Content type:	text
Media type:	unmediated
Carrier type:	volume
Variant title:	Ebony and ivy
Subject term:	Discrimination in higher education--United States.
Subject term:	Racism in education--United States.
Subject term:	Slavery--United States.
Subject term:	Universities and colleges--United States--History.
Subject term:	African Americans--Education (Higher)--History.
Subject term:	Minorities--Education (Higher)--United States--History.
Geographic term:	United States--Race relations.
Bibliography note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
ISBN:	9781596916814 (alk. paper) : $30.00
ISBN:	1596916818 (alk. paper)
key:	6485310
LCCN:	2013011971

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