Publication

2018 - , New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

116,250 words, Guess

Page Count

465 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101479873993
  • ISBN-139781479873999
  • Library of Congress Control Number2018021229
  • OCLC Control Number1032026111
  • Better World Books9781479873999
and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC378.1/982996073
  • LCCLC2781 .B733 2018
  • LCCLC2781.B733 2018

Alternate Titles

  • Civil rights, black power, and the Ivy League

Description

"Upending the Ivory Tower illuminates how the Black Power movement, which was borne out of an effort to edify the most disfranchised of the black masses, also took root in the hallowed halls of America's most esteemed institutions of higher education. Between the close of WWII and 1975, the civil rights and Black Power movements transformed the demographics and operation of the Ivy League on and off campus. As desegregators and racial pioneers, black students, staff, and faculty used their status in the black intelligentsia to enhance their predominantly white institutions while advancing black freedom. Although they were often marginalized because of their race and class, the newcomers altered educational policies and inserted blackness into the curricula and culture of the unabashedly exclusive and starkly white schools"--

Subjects

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