Ebony and Ivy
Subtitle: slavery and the troubled history of America's universities
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 423
ISBN-13: 9781596916814
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : A Connecticut Yankee at an ancient Indian mound; title: Part 1 : Slavery and the rise of the American college.; title: The edges of the empire; title: "Bonfires of the Negros"; title: "The very name of a West-Indian"; title: Ebony and ivy; title: Part 2 : Race and the rise of the American college.; title: Whitening the promised land; title: "All students & all Americans"; title: "On the bodily and mental inferiority of the Negro"; title: "Could they be sent back to Africa"; title: Epilogue : Cotton comes to Harvard