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When Ivory Towers Were Black - A Story about Race in America's Cities and Universities (Paperback)
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When Ivory Towers Were Black - A Story about Race in America's Cities and Universities (Paperback)
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When Ivory Towers Were Black lies at the potent intersection of
race, urban development, and higher education. It tells the story
of how an unparalleled cohort of ethnic minority students earned
degrees from a world-class university. The story takes place in New
York City at Columbia University’s School of Architecture and
spans a decade of institutional evolution that mirrored the
emergence and denouement of the Black Power Movement. Chronicling a
surprisingly little-known era in U.S. educational, architectural,
and urban history, the book traces an evolutionary arc that begins
with an unsettling effort to end Columbia’s exercise of
authoritarian power on campus and in the community, and ends with
an equally unsettling return to the status quo. When Ivory Towers
Were Black follows two university units that steered the School of
Architecture toward an emancipatory approach to education early
along its evolutionary arc: the school’s Division of Planning and
the university-wide Ford Foundation–funded Urban Center. It
illustrates both units’ struggle to open the ivory tower to
ethnic minority students and to involve them, and their
revolutionary white peers, in improving Harlem’s slum conditions.
The evolutionary arc ends as backlash against reforms wrought by
civil rights legislation grew and whites bought into President
Richard M. Nixon’s law-and-order agenda. The story is narrated
through the oral histories of twenty-four Columbia alumni who
received the gift of an Ivy League education during this era of
transformation but who exited the School of Architecture to find
the doors of their careers all but closed due to Nixon-era urban
disinvestment policies. When Ivory Towers Were Black assesses the
triumphs and subsequent unraveling of this bold experiment to
achieve racial justice in the school and in the nearby Harlem/East
Harlem community. It demonstrates how the experiment’s triumphs
lived on not only in the lives of the ethnic minority graduates but
also as best practices in university/community relationships and in
the fields of architecture and urban planning. The book can inform
contemporary struggles for racial and economic equality as an array
of crushing injustices generate movements similar to those of the
1960s and ’70s. Its first-person portrayal of how a
transformative process was reversed can help extend the period of
experimentation, and it can also help reopen the door of
opportunity to ethnic minority students, who are still in
strikingly short supply in elite professions like architecture and
planning.
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