Race and the University: A Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (513 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0806146559 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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provides a vivid and engaging account of his involvement in the struggle for racial equality and integration on campus.”—Journal of Southern History. “Drawing on his courage, persistence, and wisdom, George Henderson . .
He Was There and He Remembers P.M.B. They say that if you remember the '60s you probably weren't there. But this is certainly not the case with African-American Professor George Henderson and his magisterial work "Race and the University: A Memoir." Here Henderson recalls with intricate detail the period of 1967 through 1971 at the University of Oklahoma in Norman - a time and a p. Excited Tiffany Mendoza I love the product it was in excellecnt shape. Also, so excited to actually take a course with Dr. Henderson at least I will get to meet one of the Oklahoma trailblazers who fought against racial injustice.. AMAZING BOOK!!! This is one of the best purchases I ever made!!! The sender sent it to me quickly and efficitenly!!! Amazing book!! George Henderson is even more amazing in person!!
However, when real estate agents in the university town of Norman denied the Henderson family their first three choices of homes, the sociologist and educator realized he still faced some formidable challenges.In this stirring memoir, Henderson recounts his formative years at the University of Oklahoma, during the late 1960s and early 1970s. He describes in graphic detail the obstacles that he and other African Americans faced within the university community, a place of "white privilege, black separatism, and campus-wide indifference to bigotry." As an adviser and mentor to young black students who wanted to do something about these conditions, Henderson found himself at the forefront of collective efforts to improve race relations at the university. In 1967, George Henderson, the son of uneducated Alabama sharecroppers, accepted a full-time professorship at the University of Oklahoma, despite his mentor's warning to avoid the "redneck school in a backward state." Henderson became the university's third African American professor, a hire that seemed to suggest the dissolving of racial divides. But they set in motion a host of institutional changes that continue to this day. In Henderson's words, "we were ordinary people who sometimes did extraordinary things."Capturing what was perhaps the most tumultuous era in the history of American higher education, Race and the University includes valuable