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A Black Intellectual's Odyssey : From a Pennsylvania Milltown to the Ivy League /

"Martin Kilson-the first tenured African American professor at Harvard-takes readers on a fascinating journey from his upbringing in a small Pennsylvania mill town to his experiences as an undergraduate to pursuing graduate study at Harvard before spending his entire career there as a faculty m...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kilson, Martin (Autor)
Otros Autores: Moten, Fred (writer of afterword.), Harney, Stefano, 1962- (writer of afterword.), West, Cornel (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword. The one and only Martin Kilson / Cornel West
  • Growing up in a northern Black community, 1930s-1940s
  • A helping-hand ethos and Black social life, 1920s-1960s
  • Melting-pot-friendly schools in my hometown, 1920s-1960s
  • Black youth and social mobility, 1920s-1960s
  • Ambler's social system and racial patterns, 1930s-1960s
  • My Lincoln University years, 1949-1953: Part I
  • My Lincoln University years, 1949-1953: Part II
  • My Harvard Graduate School and teaching years
  • Maturation : research and scholarship
  • Epilogue. America's top political culture event in my lifetime : the election of Barack Obama
  • Afterword. Notes on Professor Martin Luther Kilson's work / Stefano Harney and Fred Moten.