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Upending the ivory tower : civil rights, Black Power, and the Ivy League

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  • 323.1196 B8118 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : New York University Press, [2018]

Physical Description

xvi, 465 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contents

  • Foreword / Gerald Horne
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Surviving solitude: the travails of Ivy desegregators
  • Unsettling Ol' Nassau: Princeton University from Jim Crow admissions to anti-apartheid protests
  • Bourgeois Black activism: Brown University and Black freedom
  • Black Power and the Big Green: Dartmouth College and the challenges of isolation
  • Space invader: Columbia enters Harlem World
  • There goes the neighborhood: Penn's postwar expansion project
  • Blue Bulldogs and Black Panthers: Yale, New Haven, and Black imaginings
  • Black Studies the hard way: Fair Harvard makes curricular changes
  • Africana ambitions: the defense of Blackness at Cornell University
  • Conclusion: Welcome to the class.

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Gerald Horne

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