Blacks at Harvard: A Documentary History of African-American Experience At Harvard and Radcliffe

ISBN-13: 9780814779729 Publisher: New York University Press Publication date: 03/01/1993 Pages: 584 Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.70(d) The history of blacks at Harvard mirrors, for better or for worse, the history of blacks in the United States. Harvard, too, has been indelibly scarred by slavery, exclusion, segregation, and other forms of racist oppression. At the same time, the nation's oldest university has also, at various times, stimulated, supported, or allowed itself to be influenced by the various reform movements that have dramatically changed the nature of race relations across the nation. The story of blacks at Harvard is thus inspiring but painful, instructive but ambiguous—a paradoxical episode in the most vexing controversy of American life: the "race question." The first and only book on its subject, Blacks at Harvard is distinguished by the rich variety of its sources. Included in this documentary history are scholarly overviews, poems, short stories, spee