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List of Tables and Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction Marybeth Gasman Christopher L. Tudico 1
1 Triumphs 13
1 For Alma Mater and The Fund: The United Negro College Fund's National Pre-Alumni Council and the Creation of the Next Generation of Donors Noah D. Drezner 15
2 On Firm Foundations: African American Black College Graduates and Their Doctoral Student Development in the Ivy League Pamela Felder Thompson 27
3 Bennett and Spelman Colleges: Creating Black Female PhDs in the Sciences Shannon Gary 41
4 Social Justice, Visionary, and Career Project: The Discourses of Black Women Leaders at Black Colleges Gaetane Jean-Marie 53
2 Troubles 75
5 McCarthyism's Effect on Black Colleges in Pennsylvania: A Historical Case Study of Cheyney and Lincoln Universities Patricia C. Williams 77
6 The Forgotten GI: The Servicemen's Readjustment Act and Black Colleges, 1944-54 Meghan Wilson 93
7 Race, Social Justice, and the Jackson State University Shootings Mark S. Giles 105
8 On Opposite Sides of the Track: New Orleans' Urban Universities in Black and White Valera T. Francis Amy E. Wells 121
9 The Impact of a Federal Civil Rights Investigation on Central State University of Ohio, 1981-2005 Kristen Safier 143
10 The Retention Planning Process at Texas Southern University: A Case Study Jacqueline Fleming Albert Tezeno Sylvia Zamora 163
3 Taboos 187
11 Color and Class: The Promulgation of Elitist Attitudes at Black Colleges Bianca Taylor 189
12 Not a Laughing Matter: The Portrayals of Black Colleges on Television Adam Parrott-Sheffer 207
13 Sexual Behavior Patterns and Sexual Risk-Taking among Women and Men at aHistorically Black University Nelwyn B. Moore J. Kenneth Davidson Sr. Robert Davis 223
Notes on Contributors 241
Index 245
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Vernon Baker
reviewed Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Triumphs, Troubles, and Taboos on May 14, 2011
Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Triumphs, Troubles, and Taboos
This is an enlightening book and also obviously the book of a young man as it is at times both overwhelmingly idealistic and alarmingly naive. Pat Conroy agreed to teach for a year on Yamacraw Island off the coast of South Carolina. There he encounters a world apart, conditions unlike anything he has encountered in his teaching on the mainland. He is to teach the children of the island, the people who used to live from fishing but now can't support themselves from polluted waters. He encounters children who are savvy but unschooled for all the time they have spent in the classroom. He learns of various types of prejudice that attack them individually and as a group in order to keep them untaught and unteachable. There is an overarching lack of concern as long as discipline is maintained.
Conroy writes of his experiments in teaching methods and his gambles with the authorities to try new activities with the children. He also daringly spares the rod! This is an eye-opening memoir, even though it is no longer a new book. It remains a worthwhile read. Perhaps my greatest take-away from it is to try to know the people to whom I speak, with whom I would like to work or deal. The surface definitely does not reveal all.
Conroy's prose is beautiful; he captures the natural world around him so wonderfully. He also captures the individual children and their families so well. You will feel that you have met many of them by the time you have finished reading this book.
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