The making of a Black scholar : from Georgia to the Ivy League / / by Horace A. Porter

• Autore: Porter Horace A. <1950->
• Pubblicazione: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (173 p.)
• Disciplina: 973/.0496073/0092; 973.04960730092
• Soggetto topico: African Americans; African American scholars; African American college students; African Americans - Education (Higher) - History - 20th century; African Americans - Civil rights - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: Columbus (Ga.) Biography
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: A Note to Readers; Good-bye Columbus: Leaving Home in 1968; 1 : The Georgia Farm: 1950 -1959; 2 : Three Georgia Schools: Claflin, Marshall, Spencer; 3 : Scholarship Kid: My Freshman Year at Amherst; 4 : Light Up the World:Amherst College and Morehouse College; 5 : Black and Blue: Graduate School at Yale University; 6 : Inner City Blues: Detroit's Wayne State University; 7 : Paradise Lost: Dartmouth College, 1979-1990; Reflections on Stanford University: "The Farm"; Acknowledgments; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This captivating and illuminating book is a memoir of a young black man moving from rural Georgia to life as a student and teacher in the Ivy League as well as a history of the changes in American education that developed in response to the civil rights movement, the war in Vietnam, and affirmative action. Born in 1950, Horace Porter starts out in rural Georgia in a house that has neither electricity nor running water. In 1968, he leaves his home in Columbus, Georgia-thanks to an academic scholarship to Amherst College-and lands in an upper-class, mainly white world. Focusing on such
• Titolo autorizzato: The making of a Black scholar
• ISBN: 1-58729-437-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910809050003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Singular lives.