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A 2006 report commissioned by Brown University revealed that institution’s complex and contested involvement in slavery—setting off a controversy that leapt from the ivory tower to make headlines across the country. But Brown’s troubling past was far from unique. In Ebony and Ivy, Craig Steven Wilder, a rising star in the profession of history, lays bare uncomfortable truths about race, slavery, and the American academy.
Many of America’s revered colleges and universities—from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton to Rutgers, Williams College, and UNC—were soaked in the sweat, the tears, and sometimes the blood of people of color. The earliest academies proclaimed their mission to Christianize the savages of North America, and played a key role in white conquest. Later, the slave economy and higher education grew up together, each nurturing the other. Slavery funded colleges, built campuses, and paid the wages of professors. Enslaved Americans waited on faculty and students; academic leaders aggressively courted the support of slave owners and slave traders. Significantly, as Wilder shows, our leading universities, dependent on human bondage, became breeding grounds for the racist ideas that sustained them.
Ebony and Ivy is a powerful and propulsive study and the first of its kind, revealing a history of oppression behind the institutions usually considered the cradle of liberal politics. Publisher
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Education (Higher), Discrimination in higher education, Slavery, Minorities, Racism in education, Race relations, African Americans, Universities and colleges, History, African americans, education, Discrimination in education, Slavery, united states, Universities and colleges, united states, Minorities, education, united states, United states, race relations, Discrimination dans l'enseignement supérieur, Racisme en éducation, Esclavage, Universités, Histoire, Minorités, Enseignement supérieur, Relations raciales, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies, Ethnische Beziehungen, Hochschule, Schwarze, Sklaverei, Diskriminering, Diskriminering av afro-amerikaner, Rasism, Slaveri, Raskonflikter, Högskoleutbildning, Historia, Högskolan, Universitet, MinoriteterShowing 4 featured editions. View all 4 editions?
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Sep 02, 2014, Bloomsbury Publishing, Bloomsbury Press
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Ebony and Ivy: slavery and the troubled history of America's universities
2013, Bloomsbury
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