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Unreconciled - Race, History, and Higher Education in the Deep South (Hardcover)
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Unreconciled - Race, History, and Higher Education in the Deep South (Hardcover)
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How do well-meaning people help a community move beyond its past
when confronted by those who hold ingrained stereotypes, profit
from maintaining the status quo, or are filled with antipathy
toward others? This book tells the story of how a Black university
president tried to do just that when he led the first non-court
ordered merger of an historically Black university with an
historically white two-year college in Albany, Georgia. Arthur
"Art" N. Dunning came of age in the Black Belt of Alabama during
the Jim Crow era. Among many pivotal experiences, he was part of a
group of student athletes who helped to integrate Bear Bryant's
University of Alabama football team in 1967. The values instilled
in him by his family and those in his close-knit community,
together with life experiences through education and from living,
working, and traveling abroad over more than forty years as an
educator, shaped his approach to leading Albany State University,
an HBCU, through its 2016 merger with all-white Darton State
College. The community's reaction to the merger proved to be an
extreme example of what our nation is experiencing today. The
perceived threat of embracing change while racially integrating two
institutions brought out painful stereotypes, racial orthodoxy,
tribalism, suspicion, and conspiracy theories. It peeled away a
veneer of racial harmony and exposed unhealthy patterns of behavior
and entrenched beliefs held by community members of both races.
Dunning shares here the hard but valuable leadership lessons
learned when his race and his personal southern history intersected
with a university and city that were abruptly forced to acknowledge
their own history--and were challenged to envision a different
future.
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