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Reparation and Reconciliation: The Rise and Fall of Integrated Higher Education - Hardcover

Smith, Christi M.

 
9781469630687: Reparation and Reconciliation: The Rise and Fall of Integrated Higher Education
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1469630680 ISBN 13: 9781469630687
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 2016

Synopsis

Reparation and Reconciliation is the first book to reveal the nineteenth-century struggle for racial integration on U.S. college campuses. As the Civil War ended, the need to heal the scars of slavery, expand the middle class, and reunite the nation engendered a dramatic interest in higher education by policy makers, voluntary associations, and African Americans more broadly. Formed in 1846 by Protestant abolitionists, the American Missionary Association united a network of colleges open to all, designed especially to educate African American and white students together, both male and female. The AMA and its affiliates envisioned integrated campuses as a training ground to produce a new leadership class for a racially integrated democracy. Case studies at three colleges — Berea College, Oberlin College, and Howard University — reveal the strategies administrators used and the challenges they faced as higher education quickly developed as a competitive social field.

Through a detailed analysis of archival and press data, Christi M. Smith demonstrates that pressures between organizations — including charities and foundations — and the emergent field of competitive higher education led to the differentiation and exclusion of African Americans, Appalachian whites, and white women from coeducational higher education and illuminates the actors and the strategies that led to the persistent salience of race over other social boundaries.

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About the Author

Christi M. Smith is Assistant Dean and Senior Scholar at the Center for Diversity and Inclusion at Washington University in St. Louis.

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Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1469630680
ISBN 13 
9781469630687
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
334