Slavery and the University (eBook)

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Histories and Legacies

Autor: Leslie M. (Hrsg.) Harris

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ISBN: 978-0-8203-5444-6

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Slavery and the University is the first edited collection of scholarly essays devoted solely to the histories and legacies of this subject on North American campuses and in their Atlantic contexts. Gathering together contributions from scholars, activists, and administrators, the volume combines two broad bodies of work: (1) historically based interdisciplinary research on the presence of slavery at higher education institutions in terms of the development of proslavery and antislavery thought and the use of slave labor; and (2) analysis on the ways in which the legacies of slavery in institutions of higher education continued in the post-Civil War era to the present day.

The collection features broadly themed essays on issues of religion, economy, and the regional slave trade of the Caribbean. It also includes case studies of slavery's influence on specific institutions, such as Princeton University, Harvard University, Oberlin College, Emory University, and the University of Alabama. Though the roots of Slavery and the University stem from a 2011 conference at Emory University, the collection extends outward to incorporate recent findings. As such, it offers a roadmap to one of the most exciting developments in the field of U.S. slavery studies and to ways of thinking about racial diversity in the history and current practices of higher education.

Autor	Harris, Leslie M. (Hrsg.) / Campbell, James T. (Hrsg.) / Brophy, Alfred L. (Hrsg.)
Verlag	Cokesbury
Einband	Adobe Digital Editions
Erscheinungsjahr	2019
Ausgabekennzeichen	Englisch
Abbildungen	18 b&w images
Masse	3'293 KB

Über den Autor Leslie M. (Hrsg.) Harris

Leslie M. Harris (Editor) Leslie M. Harris is professor of history at Northwestern University. She is the author of In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626–1863 and coeditor of Slavery in New York and Slavery and Freedom in Savannah.Clarence Lang (Editor) Clarence Lang is Susan Welch Dean of the College of the Liberal Arts and professor of African American studies at The Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Grassroots at the Gateway: Class Politics and Black Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, 1936–75 and Black America in the Shadow of the Sixties: Notes on the Civil Rights Movement, Neoliberalism, and Politics.Rhonda Y. Williams (Editor) Rhonda Y. Williams is professor and the Coleman A. Young Foundation Endowed Chair in the African American Studies Department at Wayne State University. She is the author of The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women’s Struggles against Urban Inequality and Concrete Demands: The Search for Black Power in the 20th Century, as well as coeditor of the Justice, Power, and Politics book series at the University of North Carolina Press.Joseph William Trotter Jr. (Editor) Joe William Trotter Jr. is the Giant Eagle University Professor of History and Social Justice at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America; Pittsburgh and the Urban League Movement: A Century of Social Service and Activism; and African American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry.