Between Washington and Du Bois: The Racial Politics of James Edward Shepard - Rilegato

Ellis, Reginald K.

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ISBN 10: 0813056608 ISBN 13: 9780813056609

Casa editrice: Univ Pr of Florida, 2017

Riassunto

Southern Conference on African American Studies, Inc. C. Calvin Smith Book Award

Between Washington and Du Bois describes the life and work of James Edward Shepard, the founder and president of the first state-supported black liberal arts college in the South--what is today known as North Carolina Central University. Arguing that black college presidents of the early twentieth century were not only academic pioneers but also race leaders, Reginald Ellis shows how Shepard played a vital role in the creation of a black professional class during the Jim Crow era.

Rather than focusing on vocational skills, like Booker T. Washington, or emphasizing the liberal arts exclusively, as did W. E. B. Du Bois, Shepard steered a course between these two perspectives by considering the most practical ways to make higher education available to African Americans. At times he accommodated his state’s segregationist regime in order to keep his school open and funded. Yet he never lost sight of his goal of radical racial uplift. Shepard’s story illustrates the gradualist strategy used by many of his peers in academic leadership who successfully navigated the currents of southern white supremacy and northern black radicalism.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Reginald K. Ellis is associate professor of history at Florida A&M University.
 

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ Pr of Florida
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0813056608
• ISBN 13: 9780813056609
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 146
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile