Skip to content
Catalog
You are not logged in |Login  
Request Add to My Lists Add to Bag MARC Display Return to Browse More Information
     
Limit search to available items
Previous Record Next Record
Book Cover
book
BookBook
Author Wilder, Craig Steven, author.

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

Publication Info. New York, NY : Bloomsbury Press, [2013]

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  379.26 WIL    Storage
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  379.2 W645    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  379.26 WILDER    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  378.7309 WIL    DUE 04-16-24
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  379.263 W64    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  379.26 WILDER    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  379.26 WILDER    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  379.26 WI    Check Shelf
Edition First U.S. edition.
Description 423 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-408) and index.
Contents A Connecticut Yankee at an ancient Indian mound -- 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 -- 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" -- 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.
Subject Discrimination in higher education -- United States.
Racism in education -- United States.
Slavery -- United States.
Universities and colleges -- United States -- History.
African Americans -- Education (Higher) History.
Minorities -- Education (Higher) -- United States -- History.
United States -- Race relations.
Added Title Ebony and ivy
ISBN 9781596916814 alkaline paper $30.00
1596916818 alkaline paper
-->
Permanent Link
Add a Review

 

Library Links

Encore

Search Tools

Language Settings

English
Español