Between 1890 and 1915, a predominately African American state
convict crew built Clemson University on John C. Calhoun's Fort
Hill Plantation in upstate South Carolina. Calhoun's plantation
house still sits in the middle of campus. From the establishment of
the plantation in 1825 through the integration of Clemson in 1963,
African Americans have played a pivotal role in sustaining the land
and the university. Yet their stories and contributions are largely
omitted from Clemson's public history.This book traces 'Call My
Name: African Americans in Early Clemson University History,' a
Clemson English professor's public history project that helped
convince the university to reexamine and reconceptualize the
institution's complete and complex story from the origins of its
land as Cherokee territory to its transformation into an
increasingly diverse higher-education institution in the
twenty-first century. Threading together scenes of communal history
and conversation, student protests, white supremacist terrorism,
and personal and institutional reckoning with Clemson's past, this
story helps us better understand the inextricable link between the
history and legacies of slavery and the development of higher
education institutions in America.
General
Imprint: |
University of Iowa Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Humanities and Public Life |
Release date: |
November 2020 |
Authors: |
Rhondda Robinson Thomas
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Dimensions: |
222 x 156 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
284 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-60938-740-2 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-60938-740-6 |
Barcode: |
9781609387402 |
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