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Upending the ivory tower : civil rights, black power, and the Ivy League
- Title
- Upending the ivory tower : civil rights, black power, and the Ivy League / Stefan M. Bradley.
- Author
- Bradley, Stefan M.
- Publication
- New York : New York University Press, [2018]
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 465 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Upending the Ivory Tower illuminates how the Black Power movement, which was borne out of an effort to edify the most disfranchised of the black masses, also took root in the hallowed halls of America's most esteemed institutions of higher education. Between the close of WWII and 1975, the civil rights and Black Power movements transformed the demographics and operation of the Ivy League on and off campus. As desegregators and racial pioneers, black students, staff, and faculty used their status in the black intelligentsia to enhance their predominantly white institutions while advancing black freedom. Although they were often marginalized because of their race and class, the newcomers altered educational policies and inserted blackness into the curricula and culture of the unabashedly exclusive and starkly white schools"--
- Subjects
- Black power
- College integration
- African Americans > Education (Higher)
- African Americans > Civil rights
- Universities and colleges
- College integration > United States > History
- Black power > United States > History > 20th century
- History
- United States
- African Americans > Education (Higher) > History > 20th century
- African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century
- Universities and colleges > United States > History
- 1900-1999
- Discrimination in higher education > United States
- Black author
- Racism in higher education > United States
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-447) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Surviving solitude : the travails of ivy desegregators -- Unsettling ol' Nassau : Princeton University from Jim Crow admissions to anti-Apartheid protests -- Bourgeois black activism : Brown University and black freedom -- Black power and the big green : Dartmouth College and the challenges of isolation -- Space invader : Columbia enters Harlem world -- There goes the neighborhood : Penn's postwar expansion project -- Blue bulldogs and Black Panthers : Yale, New Haven, and black imaginings -- Black studies the hard way : fair Harvard makes curricular changes -- Africana ambitions : the defense of blackness at Cornell university -- Conclusion : welcome to the class.
- Call Number
- Sc E 18-1066
- ISBN
- 9781479873999
- 1479873993
- LCCN
- 2018021229
- 99977996580
- OCLC
- 1032026111
- Author
- Bradley, Stefan M., author.
- Title
- Upending the ivory tower : civil rights, black power, and the Ivy League / Stefan M. Bradley.
- Publisher
- New York : New York University Press, [2018]
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-447) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 99977996580
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 18-1066