Point of Reckoning : : the Fight for Racial Justice at Duke University
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A Plantation System: Desegregation -- Like Bare Skin and Putting Salt on It: First Encounters -- Rights, as Opposed to Privileges: Race and Space -- We Were Their Sons and Daughters: Occupation of University House -- Hope Takes Its Last Stand: The Silent Vigil -- Humiliating to Plead for Our Humanity: Negotiations -- Now They Know, and They Ain't Gonna Do: Planning -- No Option to Negotiate: Confrontation -- We Shall Have Cocktails in the Gloaming: Aftermath -- Epilogue: Something Has to Change-2019, Fifty Years Later.
"Point of Reckoning provides a highly-detailed portrait of the evolving relationship between Duke University's black students and the university administration from the moment of desegregation through the end of the 1960s, showing the enormous influence Jim Crow racial attitudes had over how these students were perceived and treated. Theodore D. Segal examines the role that race played in how Duke faculty, administrators and trustees perceived and responded to the school's new black students and the black students' attempts to find their place at Duke. It takes the reader "inside" the evolving relationship between the black students and the university, telling the story in the words of the participants. The book explores the racial myths and justifications embraced by many at Duke who found change in race relations abhorrent, impolitic, inconvenient, or just uncomfortable"-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
Year Published: 2021
Description: xvii, 366 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781478010401
1478010401
9781478011422
1478011424
SUBJECTS
Duke University -- Students.
African American college students -- Durham -- History -- 20th century.
Racism in higher education -- Durham -- History -- 20th century.
Racism -- Durham -- History -- 20th century.
Durham (N.C.) -- History -- 20th century.