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"Harvard has played a curiously central role in the American
cultural imagination, a role that is fraught with ambiguity. In no
part of our society is this more the case than in black America.
This important book brings together for the first time two hundred
years of reflection on the curious relation of black culture to
Harvard, and Harvard's complex relation to black people. A
fascinating collection, extraordinarily well-researched, an
essential text for all who are interested in the history of
African-Americans in higher education." The history of blacks at Harvard mirrors, for better or for worse, the history of blacks in the United States. Harvard, too, has been indelibly scarred by slavery, exclusion, segregation, and other forms of racist oppression. At the same time, the nation's oldest university has also, at various times, stimulated, supported, or allowed itself to be influenced by the various reform movements that have dramatically changed the nature of race relations across the nation. The story of blacks at Harvard is thus inspiring but painful, instructive but ambiguous--a paradoxical episode in the most vexing controversy of American life: the "race question." The first and only book on its subject, "Blacks at Harvard" is distinguished by the rich variety of its sources. Included in this documentary history are scholarly overviews, poems, short stories, speeches, well-known memoirs by the famous, previously unpublished memoirs by the lesser known, newspaper accounts, letters, official papers of the university, and transcripts of debates. Among Harvard's black alumni and alumnae are such illustrious figures as W.E.B. Du Bois, MonroeTrotter, and Alain Locke; Countee Cullen and Sterling Brown both received graduate degrees. The editors have collected here writings as diverse as those of Booker T. Washington, William Hastie, Malcolm X, and Muriel Snowden to convey the complex ways in which Harvard has affected the thinking of African Americans and the ways, in turn, in which African Americans have influenced the traditions of Harvard and Radcliffe. Notable among the contributors are significant figures in African American letters: Phyllis Wheatley, William Melvin Kelley, Marita Bonner, James Alan McPherson and Andrea Lee. Equally prominent in the book are some of the nation's leading historians: Carter Woodson, Rayford Logan, John Hope Franklin, and Nathan I. Huggins. A vital sourcebook, Blacks at Harvard is certain to nourish scholarly inquiry into the social and intellectual history of African Americans at elite national institutions and serves as a telling metaphor of this nation's past.
Here is the superb second edition of the annual anthology devoted
to the best nonfiction writing by African American
authors--provocative works from an unprecedented and unforgettable
year when truth was stranger (and more inspiring) than fiction.
Winner of the 1998 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award Grand Prize
Much has been written about Thurgood Marshall, but this is the
first book to collect his own words. Here are briefs he filed as a
lawyer, oral arguments for the landmark school desegregation cases,
investigative reports on race riots and racism in the Army,
speeches and articles outlining the history of civil rights and
criticizing the actions of more conservative jurists, Supreme Court
opinions now widely cited in Constitutional law, a long and
complete oral autobiography, and much more. Marshall's impact on
American race relations was greater than that of anyone else this
century, for it was he who ended legal segregation in the United
States. His victories as a lawyer for the NAACP broke the color
line in housing, transportation, voting, and schools by overturning
the long-established "separate-but-equal" doctrine. But Marshall
was attentive to all social inequalities: no Supreme Court justice
has ever been more consistent in support of freedom of expression,
affirmative action, women's rights, abortion rights, and the right
to consensual sex among adults; no justice has ever fought so hard
against economic inequality, police brutality, and capital
punishment.
Renowned for his insightful, common-sense critiques of racial
politics, Randall Kennedy gives us a shrewd and penetrating
analysis of the complex relationship between the first black
president and his African-American constituency.
In this incisive and unflinching study, Randall Kennedy, author of "Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, "tackles another stigma of America's racial discourse: "selling out." He explains the origins of the concept and shows how fear of this label has haunted prominent members of the black community--including, most recently, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and Barack Obama. Sellout also contains a rigorously fair case study of America's quintessential racial "sellout"--Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. In the book's final section, Kennedy recounts how he himself has dealt with accusations of being a sellout after meeting fierce criticism at Harvard upon the publication of his book, "Nigger."
"Harvard has played a curiously central role in the American
cultural imagination, a role that is fraught with ambiguity. In no
part of our society is this more the case than in black America.
This important book brings together for the first time two hundred
years of reflection on the curious relation of black culture to
Harvard, and Harvard's complex relation to black people. A
fascinating collection, extraordinarily well-researched, an
essential text for all who are interested in the history of
African-Americans in higher education." The history of blacks at Harvard mirrors, for better or for worse, the history of blacks in the United States. Harvard, too, has been indelibly scarred by slavery, exclusion, segregation, and other forms of racist oppression. At the same time, the nation's oldest university has also, at various times, stimulated, supported, or allowed itself to be influenced by the various reform movements that have dramatically changed the nature of race relations across the nation. The story of blacks at Harvard is thus inspiring but painful, instructive but ambiguous--a paradoxical episode in the most vexing controversy of American life: the "race question." The first and only book on its subject, "Blacks at Harvard" is distinguished by the rich variety of its sources. Included in this documentary history are scholarly overviews, poems, short stories, speeches, well-known memoirs by the famous, previously unpublished memoirs by the lesser known, newspaper accounts, letters, official papers of the university, and transcripts of debates. Among Harvard's black alumni and alumnae are such illustrious figures as W.E.B. Du Bois, MonroeTrotter, and Alain Locke; Countee Cullen and Sterling Brown both received graduate degrees. The editors have collected here writings as diverse as those of Booker T. Washington, William Hastie, Malcolm X, and Muriel Snowden to convey the complex ways in which Harvard has affected the thinking of African Americans and the ways, in turn, in which African Americans have influenced the traditions of Harvard and Radcliffe. Notable among the contributors are significant figures in African American letters: Phyllis Wheatley, William Melvin Kelley, Marita Bonner, James Alan McPherson and Andrea Lee. Equally prominent in the book are some of the nation's leading historians: Carter Woodson, Rayford Logan, John Hope Franklin, and Nathan I. Huggins. A vital sourcebook, Blacks at Harvard is certain to nourish scholarly inquiry into the social and intellectual history of African Americans at elite national institutions and serves as a telling metaphor of this nation's past.
From the author of Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word and Race, Crime, and the Law—a tour de force about the controversial issue of personal interracial intimacy as it exists within ever-changing American social mores and within the rule of law.
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