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

"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, th...

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Autor principal: Bradley, Stefan M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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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