Ebony & ivy : race, slavery, and the troubled history of America's universities / Craig Steven Wilder.

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

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wilder, Craig Steven (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2013.
Edition:First U.S. edition.
Subjects:
Discrimination in higher education > United States.
Racism in education > United States.
Slavery > United States.
Universities and colleges > United States > History.
African Americans > History > Education (Higher)
Minorities > Education (Higher) > United States > History.
Racism.
United States > Race relations.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: A Connecticut Yankee at an ancient Indian mound
  • Slavery and the rise of the American college: The edges of the empire ; "Bonfires of the Negros" ; "The very name of a West-Indian" ; Ebony and ivy
  • Race and the rise of the American college: 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.
  • 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.

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