Research Catalog

Title

Technology and the dream : reflections on the Black experience at MIT, 1941-1999 / Clarence G. Williams.

Author

Williams, Clarence G.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2001.

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Details

Description

xi, 1042 pages : illustrations; 24 cm +

Summary

"This book grew out of the Blacks at MIT History Project, whose mission is to document the black presence at MIT. The main body of the text consists of transcripts of more than seventy-five oral history interviews, in which the interviewees assess their MIT experience and reflect on the role of blacks at MIT and beyond. Although most of the interviewees are present or former students, black faculty, administrators, and staff are also represented, as are non-black faculty and administrators who have had an impact on blacks at MIT. The interviewees were selected with an eye to presenting the broadest range of issues and personalities, as well as a representative cross-section by time period and category." "Each interviewee was asked to discuss family background; education; role models and mentors; experiences of racism and race-related issues; choice of field and career; goals; adjustment to the MIT environment; best and worst MIT experiences; experience with MIT support services; relationships with MIT students, faculty, and staff; advice to present or potential MIT students; and advice to the MIT administration. A recurrent theme is that MIT's rigorous teaching instills the confidence to deal with just about any hurdle in professional life, and that an MIT degree opens many doors and supplies instant credibility."--Jacket.

Subject

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology > History
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• African American college students > Massachusetts > Cambridge > Interviews
• Students
• Black People
• students
• African American college students
• Student
• EDUCATION
• MINORITIES
• HISTORIES
• Massachusetts > Cambridge
• Cambridge, Mass
• Schwarze

Genre/Form

• Interview
• interviews.
• History.
• Interviews.

Note

• Includes index.

System Details (note)

• System requirements for accompanying computer disc: a PC or Mac capable of reading Microsoft Word 97/98 files (for the text), Microsoft Excel 97/98 files (for the photo credits), and JPEG files (for the illustrations; these can be opened in a Web browser).

ISBN

• 026223212X
• 9780262232128

LCCN

00052707

OCLC

• ocm45320886
• 45320886
• SCSB-1208541

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library