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The Classics in Black and White

Black Colleges, Classics Education, Resistance, and Assimilation

By: Kenneth W. Goings,Eugene O'Connor

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The Classics in Black and White

Black Colleges, Classics Education, Resistance, and Assimilation

By: Kenneth W. Goings,Eugene O'Connor

Following emancipation, African Americans continued their quest for an education by constructing schools and colleges for Black students, mainly in the U.S. South, to acquire the tools of literacy, but beyond this, to enroll in courses in the Greek and Latin classics, then the major curriculum at American liberal arts colleges and universities. Classically trained African Americans from the time of the early U.S. republic had made a link between North Africa and the classical world; therefore, from almost the beginning of their quest for a formal education, many African Americans believed that the classics were their rightful legacy. The Classics in Black and White is based extensively on the study of course catalogs of colleges founded for Black people after the Civil War by Black churches, largely White missionary societies and White philanthropic organizations. Kenneth W. Goings and Eugene O’Connor uncover the full extent of the colleges’ classics curriculums and showcase the careers of prominent African American classicists, male and female, and their ultimately unsuccessful struggle to protect the liberal arts from being replaced by Black conservatives and White power brokers with vocational instruction such as woodworking for men and domestic science for women. This move to eliminate classics was in large part motivated by the very success of the colleges’ classics programs. As Goings and O’Connor’s survey of Black colleges’ curriculums and texts reveals, the lessons they taught were about more than declensions and conjugations—they imparted the tools of self-formation and self-affirmation.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820366633

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9780820366630

In Black and White

Race and Sports in America

By: Kenneth L. Shropshire

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In Black and White

Race and Sports in America

By: Kenneth L. Shropshire

Practicing sports lawyer Shropshire (legal studies, U. of Pennsylvania) points out the racism still institutionalized in American professional sports, distills the attitudes that allow it to persevere, and recommends strategies for redressing the situation. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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240

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NYU Press

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0814780164

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9780814780169

Walter White

Mr. NAACP

By: Kenneth Robert Janken

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Walter White

Mr. NAACP

By: Kenneth Robert Janken

Walter White (1893-1955) was among the nation's preeminent champions of civil rights. With blond hair and blue eyes, he could "pass" as white even though he identified as African American, and his physical appearance allowed him to go undercover to invest

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UNC Press Books

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0807857807

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9780807857809

The NAACP Comes of Age

The Defeat of Judge John J. Parker

By: Kenneth W. Goings

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The NAACP Comes of Age

The Defeat of Judge John J. Parker

By: Kenneth W. Goings

... an important evaluation of the impact of the nomination battle on the NAACP." --The American Journal of Legal History "... provocative and extremely important... Goings does an excellent job of showing how the defeat of Parker catapulted the NAACP into a new era." --The North Carolina Historical Review "... Goings has broadened our understanding of an important topic, and his book deserves a reading." --American Historical Review "The NAACP Comes of Age is a valuable study of an important episode in political history." --The Historian The NAACP's fight against John J. Parker's nomination to the Supreme Court in 1930 energized African Americans politically and prepared the way for the 1936 black-voter switch and the entry of African Americans into the New Deal Coalition. The confirmation debate in the Senate on Parker's nomination revealed that the issue of race in national politics, which had been ignored after Reconstruction, could no longer be overlooked.

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0253325854

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The Classics in Black and White

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