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The Black campus movement : Black students and the racial reconstitution of higher education, 1965-1972 /

Between 1965 and 1972, African American students at upwards of a thousand historically black and white American colleges and universities organized, demanded and protested for Black Studies, Black universities, new faces, new ideas, a relevant, diverse higher education. Black power inspired these bl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kendi, Ibram X.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Contemporary Black history.
Subjects:
African American student movements.
African American college students > Political activity > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Education (Higher) > History.
Education, Higher > United States > History.
Table of Contents:
  • An "island within": Black students and Black higher education prior to the Black campus movement
  • "God speed the breed": new Negro in the long Black student movement
  • "Strike while the iron is hot": civil rights in the long Black student movement
  • "March that won't turn around": formation and development of the Black campus movement
  • "Shuddering in a paroxysm of Black power": a narrative overview of the Black campus movement
  • "A fly in buttermilk": BCM organizations, demands, protests, and support
  • "Black Jim Crow studies": opposition and repression
  • "Black students refuse to pass the buck": racial reconstitution of higher education.