Joy Ann Williamson charts the evolution of black consciousness on predominately white American campuses during the critical period between the mid-1960s and mid-1970s, with the Black student movement at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign serving as an illuminating microcosm of similar movements across the country. Nationwide black student college enrollment doubled from 1964 to 1970, with the greatest increase occurring at mostly white universities. As Williamson shows, however, increased admission did not bring with it increased acceptance. Confronted with institutional apathy or even hostility, African Americans began organizing. Drawing on student publications of the late 1960s and early 1970s, as well as interviews with former administrators, faculty, and student activists, Williamson discusses the emergence of Black Power ideology, what constitutes EURoeblackness,EUR? and notions of self-advancement versus racial solidarity. Promoting an understanding of social protest and measuring the impact of black student activism on an American university, Black Power on Campus is an important contribution to the broader literature on African American liberation movements, the role of black youth in protest movements, and the reform of American higher education.
Titel
Black Power on Campus
Untertitel
The University of Illinois, 1965-75
Autor
EAN
9780252095801
ISBN
978-0-252-09580-1
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
01.08.2013
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
1.4 MB
Anzahl Seiten
216
Jahr
2013
Untertitel
Englisch
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