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Degrees of Equality - Abolitionist Colleges and the Politics of Race (Hardcover)
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Degrees of Equality - Abolitionist Colleges and the Politics of Race (Hardcover)
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The abolitionist movement not only helped bring an end to slavery
in the United States but also inspired the large-scale admission of
African Americans to the country's colleges and universities.
Oberlin College changed the face of American higher education in
1835 when it began enrolling students irrespective of race and sex.
Camaraderie among races flourished at the Ohio institution and at
two other leading abolitionist colleges, Berea in Kentucky and New
York Central, where Black and white students allied in the fight
for emancipation and civil rights. After Reconstruction, however,
color lines emerged on even the most progressive campuses. For new
generations of white students and faculty, ideas of fairness toward
African Americans rarely extended beyond tolerating their presence
in the classroom, and overt acts of racial discrimination against
Blacks grew increasingly common by the 1880s. John Frederick Bell's
Degrees of Equality analyzes the trajectory of interracial reform
at Oberlin, New York Central, and Berea, noting its implications
for the progress of racial equality in nineteenth-century America.
Drawing on student and alumni writings, institutional records, and
promotional materials, Bell uses case studies to interrogate how
abolitionists and their successors put their principles into
practice. The ultimate failure of these social experiments
illustrates a tragic irony of interracial reform, as the
achievement of African American freedom and citizenship led whites
to divest from the project of racial pluralism.
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