Ebony & ivy : race, slavery, and the troubled history of America's universities / Craig Steven Wilder.

Author: Wilder, Craig Steven.

Edition Statement:First U.S. edition.

Imprint:New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2013.

Description423 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Note:Prologue: A Connecticut Yankee at an ancient Indian mound -- Slavery and the rise of the American college: The edges of the empire ; "Bonfires of the Negros" ; "The very name of a West-Indian" ; Ebony and ivy -- Race and the rise of the American college: Whitening the promised land ; "All students & all Americans" ; "On the bodily and mental inferiority of the Negro" ; "Could they be sent back to Africa" -- Epilogue: Cotton comes to Harvard.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-408) and index.

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