Upending the Ivory Tower : : Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy League /

Upending the Ivory Tower : : Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy League / / Stefan M. Bradley.

Winner, 2019 Anna Julia Cooper and C.L.R. James Award, given by the National Council for Black StudiesFinalist, 2019 Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History, given by the African American Intellectual History SocietyWinner, 2019 Outstanding Book Award, given by the History of Education...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
VerfasserIn:
Bradley, Stefan M.,
MitwirkendeR:
Horne, Gerald,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 15 black and white illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of abbreviations
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. Surviving solitude: the travails of ivy desegregators
  • 2. Unsettling Ol’ Nassau: Princeton university from Jim crow admissions to anti- apartheid protests
  • 3. Bourgeois black activism: brown university and black freedom
  • 4. Black power and the big green: Dartmouth college and the challenges of isolation
  • 5. Space invader: Columbia university enters Harlem world
  • 6. There goes the neighborhood: Penn’s postwar expansion project
  • 7. Blue bulldogs and black panthers: Yale, new haven, and black imaginings
  • 8. Black studies the hard way: fair Harvard makes curricular changes
  • 9. Africana ambitions: the defense of blackness at Cornell university
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the author

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