Call My Name, Clemson: Documenting the Black Experience in an American University Community

Thomas, Rhondda Robinson

ISBN 10: 1609387406 / ISBN 13: 9781609387402

Editore: University of Iowa Press, 2020

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Riassunto:

Between 1890 and 1915, a predominately African American state convict crew built Clemson University on John C. Calhoun&;s Fort Hill Plantation in upstate South Carolina. Calhoun&;s plantation house still sits in the middle of campus. From the establishment of the plantation in 1825 through the integration of Clemson in 1963, African Americans have played a pivotal role in sustaining the land and the university. Yet their stories and contributions are largely omitted from Clemson&;s public history.

This book traces &;Call My Name: African Americans in Early Clemson University History,&; a Clemson English professor&;s public history project that helped convince the university to reexamine and reconceptualize the institution&;s complete and complex story from the origins of its land as Cherokee territory to its transformation into an increasingly diverse higher-education institution in the twenty-first century. Threading together scenes of communal history and conversation, student protests, white supremacist terrorism, and personal and institutional reckoning with Clemson&;s past, this story helps us better understand the inextricable link between the history and legacies of slavery and the development of higher education institutions in America.

Informazioni sull?autore: Rhondda Robinson Thomas is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature at Clemson University. She is author of Claiming Exodus: A Cultural History of Afro-Atlantic Identity, 1770&;1903. She is faculty director for &;Call My Name: African Americans in Early Clemson University History,&; and lives in Anderson, South Carolina.

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Titolo: Call My Name, Clemson: Documenting the Black...
Casa editrice: University of Iowa Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2020
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Very Good
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