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Creating community : life and learning at Montgomery's Black university / edited by Karl E. Westhauser, Elaine M. Smith, and Jennifer A. Fremlin.
- Title
- Creating community : life and learning at Montgomery's Black university / edited by Karl E. Westhauser, Elaine M. Smith, and Jennifer A. Fremlin.
- Publication
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2005.
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- Description
- xii, 180 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Creating Community explores how faculty members at Alabama State University, a historically black university in Montgomery, have been inspired by African American culture and the legacy of the civil rights movement. It also examines how they interpret and extend that inspiration through teaching, scholarship, and service. The contributors to the volume describe a wide range of experiences from the era of segregation to the present day. These include accounts of growing up and going to college in Alabama, arriving in the South for the first time to teach at ASU, and the development of programs such as the National Center for the Study of Civil Rights and African American Culture.
- Together, the essays present viewpoints that reflect the diverse ethnic, cultural, and academic backgrounds of the contributors and of the university." "Creating Community is informed by the awareness that Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have responded in significant ways to social changes of the past generation, and it addresses questions about the role of the black university in contemporary society. In this way, it offers readers the opportunity to understand how issues of diversity, identity, multiculturalism, and race impact Alabama State University in particular and HBCUs in general."--Jacket.
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- Genre/Form
- Anecdotes
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-165) and index.
- Contents
- You can go home again / Kathy Dunn Jackson -- E pluribus unum : discovering multiculturalism / Virginia M. Jones -- Genesis of the National Center for the Study of Civil Rights and African-American Culture / Janice R. Franklin -- I go to college / Frank E. Moorer -- Living a womanist legacy / Elaine M. Smith -- I pledge allegiance to my "black-eyed susan" university / Annie P. Markham -- Portrait of the artist as a young white man / Robert Ely -- City on a hill / Karl E. Westhauser -- Called home / Margaret Holler Stephens -- "You're not white, you're Canadian" : where I belong / Jennifer A. Fremlin -- The color brown : an Asian's perspective / Sunita George .
- ISBN
- 0817314636 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2004029032
- OCLC
- 57243472
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- Harvard Library