When Ivory Towers Were Black (eBook)

A Story about Race in America's Cities and Universities

Sharon Egretta Sutton (Autor)

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2017
312 Seiten
Fordham University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8232-7614-1 (ISBN)

Infos

This personal history chronicles the triumph and loss of a 1960s initiative to recruit minority students to Columbia University's School of Architecture.At the intersection of US educational, architectural, and urban history, When Ivory Towers Were Black tells the story of how an unparalleled cohort of ethnic minority students overcame institutional roadblocks to earn degrees in architecture from Columbia University. Its narrative begins with a protest movement to end Columbia's authoritarian practices, and ends with an unsettling return to the status quo.Sharon Egretta Sutton, one of the students in question, follows two university units that led the movement toward emancipatory education: the Division of Planning and the Urban Center. She illustrates both units' struggle to open the ivory tower to ethnic minority students and to involve those students in improving Harlem's slum conditions. Along with Sutton's personal perspective, the story is narrated through the oral histories of twenty-four fellow students who received an Ivy League education only to find the doors closing on their careers due to Nixon-era urban disinvestment policies.

Autor

Sharon Egretta Sutton is Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington and a fellow in the American Institute of Architects, a Distinguished Professor of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, and an inductee into the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.3.2017
• Vorwort: James Stewart Polshek
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Schulbuch / Allgemeinbildende Schulen
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: Affirmative Action • Black Power Movement • Civil Rights Movement • Columbia University • higher education • minority students • New York City • Race relations • Racism • Social injustice • Urban Development
• ISBN-10: 0-8232-7614-7 / 0823276147
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-7614-1 / 9780823276141