Constructing Black Education at Oberlin College: A Documentary History

ISBN-13: 9780821418871 Publisher: Ohio University Press Publication date: 01/15/2010 Edition description: 1 Pages: 472 Product dimensions: 6.40(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.30(d) In 1835 Oberlin became the first institute of higher education to make a cause of racial egalitarianism when it decided to educate students “irrespective of color.” Yet the visionary college’s implementation of this admissions policy was uneven. In Constructing Black Education at Oberlin College: A Documentary History, Roland M. Baumann presents a comprehensive documentary history of the education of African American students at Oberlin College.Following the Reconstruction era, Oberlin College mirrored the rest of society as it reduced its commitment to black students by treating them as less than equals of their white counterparts. By the middle of the twentieth century, black and white student activists partially reclaimed the Oberlin legacy by refusing to be defined by race. Generations of Oberlin students, plus a min