Reparation and Reconciliation : The Rise and Fall of Integrated Higher Educat...

by Christi M. Smith

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Reparation and Reconciliation : The Rise and Fall of Integrated Higher Education, Hardcover by Smith, Christi M., ISBN 1469630680, ISBN-13 9781469630687, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Reparation and Reconciliation is the first book to reveal the nineteenth-century struggle for racial integration on . 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 coeducationa

• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Year: 2016
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9781469630687
• Condition: Fine

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