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Record Nr.

UNISA996599571903316

Autore

Carey Miya

Titolo

Scarlet and Black, Volume Three : Making Black Lives Matter at Rutgers, 1945-2020

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick : , : Rutgers University Press, , 2021

©2021

ISBN

1-9788-2733-4

1-9788-2734-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

FuentesMarisa J

WhiteDeborah Gray

OrozcoRoberto C

RaelCarie

ThomasBrooke A

GaviganIan

WalkerPamela N

WilliamsJoseph

EstyKaisha

Disciplina

378.74942

Soggetti

HISTORY / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Scarlet and Black -- Introduction -- PART I Prelude to Change -- Circa 1944–1970 -- 1 Twenty-Twenty Vision: -- 2 Rutgers and New Brunswick: -- 3 “Tell It Like It Is”: -- 4 Black and Puerto Rican Student Experiences and Their Movements at Douglass College, 1945–1974 -- PART II Student Protest and Forceful Change -- A History of Black and Puerto Rican Student Organizing across Rutgers University Campuses, 1950–1985 -- 5 A Second Founding: The Black and Puerto Rican Student Revolution at Rutgers–Camden and Rutgers–Newark -- 6 Equality in Higher Education: -- 7 The Black Unity League: -- 8 “We the People”: -- PART III Making Black Lives Matter beyond Rutgers, 1973–2007 -- Making Black Lives Matter beyond Rutgers, 1973–2007 -- 9 “It’s Happening in Our Own Backyard”: -- 10 Fight



Racism, End Apartheid: -- 11 “Hell No, Our Genes Aren’t Slow!”: -- 12 “Pure Grace”: -- Epilogue: -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- About the Editors

Sommario/riassunto

The 250th anniversary of the founding of Rutgers University is a perfect moment for the Rutgers community to reconcile its past, and acknowledge its role in the enslavement and debasement of African Americans and the disfranchisement and elimination of Native American people and culture. Scarlet and Black, Volume Three, concludes this groundbreaking documentation of the history of Rutgers’s connection to slavery, which was neither casual nor accidental—nor unusual. Like most early American colleges, Rutgers depended on slaves to build its campuses and serve its students and faculty; it depended on the sale of black people to fund its very existence. This final of three volumes concludes the work of the Committee on Enslaved and Disenfranchised Population in Rutgers History. This latest volume includes essays about Black and Puerto Rican students' experiences; the development of the Black Unity League; the Conklin Hall takeover; the divestment movement against South African apartheid; anti-racism struggles during the 1990s; and the Don Imus controversy and the 2007 Scarlet Knights women's basketball team. To learn more about the work of the Committee on Enslaved and Disenfranchised Population in Rutgers History, visit the project's website at http://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu.