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While President Emerita Johnnetta B. Cole is credited with
propelling Spelman College (the oldest historically Black womens'
college) to national prominence, little is generally known about
the strong academic foundation and legacy she inherited. Contrary
to popular belief, the first four presidents of Spelman (including
its two co-founders) were White women who led the early development
of the College, armed with the belief that former slaves and free
Black women should and could receive a college-level education.
This book presents the history of Spelman's foundation through the
tenure of its fourth president, Florence M. Read, which ended in
1953. This compelling story is brought up to date by the
contributions of Spelman's current president, Beverly Daniel Tatum,
and by Johnnetta B. Cole.The book chronicles how the vision each of
these women presidents, and their response to changing social
forces, both profoundly shaped Spelman's curriculum and influenced
the lives and minds of thousands of young Black women. The authors
trace the evolution of Spelman from its beginning-when the
founders, aware of the limited occupations open to its graduates,
strove to uplift the Black race by providing an academic education
to disenfranchised Black women while also providing training for
available careers--to the fifties when the college became an
exemplar of liberal arts education in the South.This book fills a
void in the history of Black women in higher education. It will
appeal to a wide readership interested in women's studies, Black
history and the history of higher education in general.
After the pioneers, the second generation of African American
anthropologists trained in the late 1950s and 1960s. Expected to
study their own or similar cultures, these scholars often focused
on the African diaspora but in some cases they also ranged further
afield both geographically and intellectually. Yet their work
remains largely unknown to colleagues and students. This volume
collects intellectual biographies of fifteen accomplished African
American anthropologists of the era. The authors explore the
scholars' diverse backgrounds and interests and look at their
groundbreaking methodologies, ethnographies, and theories. They
also place their subjects within their tumultuous times, when
antiracism and anticolonialism transformed the field and the
emergence of ideas around racial vindication brought forth new
worldviews. Scholars profiled: George Clement Bond, Johnnetta B.
Cole, James Lowell Gibbs Jr., Vera Mae Green, John Langston
Gwaltney, Ira E. Harrison, Delmos Jones, Diane K. Lewis, Claudia
Mitchell-Kernan, Oliver Osborne, Anselme Remy, William Alfred
Shack, Audrey Smedley, Niara Sudarkasa, and Charles Preston Warren
II
After the pioneers, the second generation of African American
anthropologists trained in the late 1950s and 1960s. Expected to
study their own or similar cultures, these scholars often focused
on the African diaspora but in some cases they also ranged further
afield both geographically and intellectually. Yet their work
remains largely unknown to colleagues and students. This volume
collects intellectual biographies of fifteen accomplished African
American anthropologists of the era. The authors explore the
scholars' diverse backgrounds and interests and look at their
groundbreaking methodologies, ethnographies, and theories. They
also place their subjects within their tumultuous times, when
antiracism and anticolonialism transformed the field and the
emergence of ideas around racial vindication brought forth new
worldviews. Scholars profiled: George Clement Bond, Johnnetta B.
Cole, James Lowell Gibbs Jr., Vera Mae Green, John Langston
Gwaltney, Ira E. Harrison, Delmos Jones, Diane K. Lewis, Claudia
Mitchell-Kernan, Oliver Osborne, Anselme Remy, William Alfred
Shack, Audrey Smedley, Niara Sudarkasa, and Charles Preston Warren
II
Dr. Cole speaks directly to her younger sisters--America's Black
women--and calls out to them to take or active role, as she is
doing, to help make their world a better place.
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