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Call My Name, Clemson: Documenting the Black Experience in an American University Community - Couverture souple

Livre 5 sur 5: Humanities and Public Life

Thomas, Rhondda Robinson

 
9781609387402: Call My Name, Clemson: Documenting the Black Experience in an American University Community
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1609387406 ISBN 13 : 9781609387402
Editeur : University of Iowa Press, 2020

Synopsis

Between 1890 and 1915, a predominately African American state convict crew built Clemson University on John C. Calhoun's Fort Hill Plantation in upstate South Carolina. Calhoun's plantation house still sits in the middle of campus. From the establishment of the plantation in 1825 through the integration of Clemson in 1963, African Americans have played a pivotal role in sustaining the land and the university. Yet their stories and contributions are largely omitted from Clemson's public history.

This book traces "Call My Name: African Americans in Early Clemson University History," a Clemson English professor's public history project that helped convince the university to reexamine and reconceptualize the institution's complete and complex story from the origins of its land as Cherokee territory to its transformation into an increasingly diverse higher-education institution in the twenty-first century. Threading together scenes of communal history and conversation, student protests, white supremacist terrorism, and personal and institutional reckoning with Clemson's past, this story helps us better understand the inextricable link between the history and legacies of slavery and the development of higher education institutions in America.

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À propos de l'auteur

Rhondda Robinson Thomas is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature at Clemson University. She is author of Claiming Exodus: A Cultural History of Afro-Atlantic Identity, 1770-1903. She is faculty director for "Call My Name: African Americans in Early Clemson University History," and lives in Anderson, South Carolina.

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Éditeur
University of Iowa Press
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1609387406
ISBN 13 
9781609387402
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
284
Coordonnées du fabricant
Buchpark GmbH
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