Ebony & ivy : race, slavery, and the troubled history of America's universities

Author

Craig Steven Wilder

Call Number

• 378.1982 W6731 (CEN)

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Edition

Paperback edition

Publication Information

New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2014.

Physical Description

423 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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.

Notes

"First U.S. edition published 2013"--Title page verso

Contents

• Prologue: A Connecticut Yankee at an ancient Indian mound
• The edges of the empire
• "Bonfires of the Negros"
• "The very name of a West-Indian"
• Ebony and ivy
• Whitening the promised land
• "All students & all Americans"
• "On the bodily and mental inferiority of the Negro"
• "Could they be sent back to Africa"
• Epilogue: Cotton comes to Harvard.