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Upending the Ivory Tower - Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy League (Hardcover)
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Upending the Ivory Tower - Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy League (Hardcover)
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Winner, 2019 Anna Julia Cooper and C.L.R. James Award, given by the
National Council for Black Studies Finalist, 2019 Pauli Murray Book
Prize in Black Intellectual History, given by the African American
Intellectual History Society Winner, 2019 Outstanding Book Award,
given by the History of Education Society The inspiring story of
the black students, faculty, and administrators who forever changed
America's leading educational institutions and paved the way for
social justice and racial progress The eight elite institutions
that comprise the Ivy League, sometimes known as the Ancient
Eight-Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Penn, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth,
and Cornell-are American stalwarts that have profoundly influenced
history and culture by producing the nation's and the world's
leaders. The few black students who attended Ivy League schools in
the decades following WWII not only went on to greatly influence
black America and the nation in general, but unquestionably
awakened these most traditional and selective of American spaces.
In the twentieth century, black youth were in the vanguard of the
black freedom movement and educational reform. Upending the Ivory
Tower illuminates how the Black Power movement, which was borne out
of an effort to edify the most disfranchised of the black masses,
also took root in the hallowed halls of America's most esteemed
institutions of higher education. Between the close of WWII and
1975, the civil rights and Black Power movements transformed the
demographics and operation of the Ivy League on and off campus. As
desegregators and racial pioneers, black students, staff, and
faculty used their status in the black intelligentsia to enhance
their predominantly white institutions while advancing black
freedom. Although they were often marginalized because of their
race and class, the newcomers altered educational policies and
inserted blackness into the curricula and culture of the
unabashedly exclusive and starkly white schools. This book attempts
to complete the narrative of higher education history, while adding
a much needed nuance to the history of the Black Power movement. It
tells the stories of those students, professors, staff, and
administrators who pushed for change at the risk of losing what
privilege they had. Putting their status, and sometimes even their
lives, in jeopardy, black activists negotiated, protested, and
demonstrated to create opportunities for the generations that
followed. The enrichments these change agents made endure in the
diversity initiatives and activism surrounding issues of race that
exist in the modern Ivy League. Upending the Ivory Tower not only
informs the civil rights and Black Power movements of the postwar
era but also provides critical context for the Black Lives Matter
movement that is growing in the streets and on campuses throughout
the country today. As higher education continues to be a catalyst
for change, there is no one better to inform today's activists than
those who transformed our country's past and paved the way for its
future.
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