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Holding fast to dreams : empowering youth from the civil rights crusade to STEM achievement / by Hrabowski, Freeman A.,author.(CARDINAL)640744;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Born in Birmingham, Alabama, once known as the "most segregated city" in the United States, Freeman Hrabowski discovered the courage to stand up for civil rights and educational opportunity when he heard Martin Luther King, Jr.'s call and joined the Children's March in 1963. Along with other protesting students, 12-year old Freeman spent five terrifying days in jail. But the march, the arrests, and the experience, led to desegregation in Birmingham and a life's journey for Freeman Hrabowski. In [Title], Dr. Hrabowski relates his experiences with the civil rights movement in Birmingham as a child, his relentless desire for a quality education, his development as a leader in higher education, and the ways these experiences led to the development of programs and policies supporting inclusive excellence and educational success for African Americans. Dr. Hrabowksi details the lessons about education he drew from his own experiences as a student, faculty member, and administrator. He relates the circumstances in which he was able to draw on those lessons to develop the most successful program in the United States - the Meyerhoff Scholars Program -- for educating African Americans who go on to earn doctorates and M.D.-Ph.D.s in the natural sciences and engineering. And, lastly, he turns to a discussion of how important it is for research universities the seek inclusive excellence, work across the educational spectrum from Kindergarten through graduate school to ensure student success"--
Subjects: Hrabowski, Freeman A.; African Americans; Minorities in science; Minorities in technology; Minorities in engineering; Minorities in mathematics; Science; Engineering; Mathematics; Civil rights movements;
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The walls around opportunity : the failure of colorblind policy for higher education / by Orfield, Gary,author.(CARDINAL)149590;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Colorblind higher education policy in a racially stratified society -- Cumulative racial inequalities and the path to college -- The tradition of exclusion -- The Civil Rights revolution and the war on poverty: a color-conscious rights policy worked -- Colorblindness reigns: four decades of inequality in a transforming society -- Deep changes for real gains -- Strategies -- Commentary / James D. Anderson -- Commentary / Stella M. Flores."This book argues that the current conversation about affirmative action and college admissions omits a key dimension: the conditions of racial inequality that students and their families experience from early childhood through high school, and which continue throughout postsecondary education. The moment of matriculation is part of a much longer process that begins in homes, schools, and communities, which prepares some students well and leaves others at a disadvantage. And when students attend college, they still might not have the resources to stay in school and graduate, particularly if their college cannot help with their financial needs. Drawing on extensive data, the authors argue that, historically, the only major breakthroughs on racial barriers to education and economic opportunity have come in periods of commitment to race-conscious policies. They argue that colorblind policies, by ignoring the racial realities of schools and society, have critically limited access to education for students of color. The authors propose a series of policies and practices that could make educational opportunity more equal. They argue that when it is impossible to implement race-conscious policies, educational institutions must implement 'race-sensitive' policies built with an understanding of the roots of racial inequality, so as to avoid building a future with profound intergenerational racial inequality"--
Subjects: Universities and colleges; Minority college students; Affirmative action programs in education; Educational equalization; Higher education and state;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Princess of the Hither Isles : a black suffragist's story from the Jim Crow south / by Alexander, Adele Logan,1938-author.(CARDINAL)203972;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-358) and index.Legacies -- The people who can fly -- Susan's stories -- The Hunts' war -- School days -- Trains, rains, pedagogy, and savagery -- The Hither Isles -- Vanished -- Obstreperous women -- Of the genius and training of black folk -- Up from slavery, off to the white house -- Minds, bodies, and souls -- Recalled to life -- Live not on evil -- Reckless and insubordinate -- The princess and the pen -- Firestorm -- Exile -- Flight -- After the fall -- "What a strange thing is 'race' and family, stranger still".A compelling reconstruction of the life of a black suffragist, Adella Hunt Logan, blending family lore, historical research, and literary imagination. Born during the Civil War into a slaveholding family that included black, white, and Cherokee forebears, Adella Hunt Logan dedicated herself to advancing political and educational opportunities for the African American community. She taught at Alabama's Tuskegee Institute but also joined the segregated woman suffrage movement, passing for white in order to fight for the rights of people of color. Her determination-as a wife, mother, scholar, and activist -to challenge the draconian restraints of race and gender generated conflicts that precipitated her tragic demise. Historian Adele Logan Alexander-Adella Hunt Logan's granddaughter-portrays Adella, her family, and contemporaries such as Booker T. Washington, Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, George Washington Carver, Theodore Roosevelt, and W. E. B. Du Bois. Alexander bridges the chasms that frustrate efforts to document the lives of those who traditionally have been silenced, weaving together family lore, historical research, and literary imagination into a riveting, multigenerational family saga.
Subjects: Biographies.; Logan, Adella Hunt, 1863-1915.; African American educators; Suffragists; African American feminists; African American women; Minority women in higher education; Women; Suffragettes.; Women.; Womyn.;
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My time among the whites: Notes from an unfinished education / by Crucet, Jennine Capó,author.(CARDINAL)563317; Crucent, Jennine Capo,author.(local)tlcaut1495645593233000;
"In this sharp and candid collection of essays, critically acclaimed writer and first-generation American Jennine Capo Crucet explores the condition of finding herself a stranger in the country where she was born. Raised in Miami and the daughter of Cuban refugees, Crucet examines the political and personal contours of American identity and the physical places where those contours find themselves smashed: be it a rodeo town in Nebraska, a university campus in upstate New York, or Disney World in Florida."--Amazon.com
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Hispanic-American studies.; Social sciences.; Ethnology; Minorities; Essays.; Discrimination & Racism.; Biography & Autobiography.; Cultural, Ethnic & Regional.; Hispanic & Latino.; Immigrants; Children of immigrants; Socidal conditions; Essays;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 8
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Diverse issues in higher education.
Subjects: Minorities; Multicultural education;
Available copies: 45 / Total copies: 46
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To drink from the well : the struggle for racial equality at the nation's oldest public university / by Kapur, Geeta N.,1977-author.(CARDINAL)855670; Barber, William J.,II,1963-writer of introduction.(CARDINAL)408829;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-429).Foreword / by Rev. Dr. William Barber II -- New Hope Chapel Hill -- The Black Wall Street of America -- The Great Depression controversies -- Hot as blazes -- The University's daughter -- North Carolina's way out -- White people wake up -- Going up to Mount Sinai -- The Buzzard's roost -- Tired of trying to save the White man's soul -- Let freedom ring -- Turmoil, unrest, and struggle -- Epilogue."The University of North Carolina is the oldest public university in the US, with the cornerstone for the first dormitory, Old East, laid in 1793. At that ceremony, the enslaved people who would literally build that structure were not acknowledged; they were not even present. In fact, 158 years passed before Black students were admitted to this university in Chapel Hill, and it was another 66 years after that before students forcibly removed the long-criticized Confederate "Silent Sam" monument. Indeed, this university, revered in the state and the nation, has been entwined with white supremacy and institutional racism throughout its history-and the struggle continues today. To Drink from the Well: The Struggle for Racial Equality at the Nation's Oldest Public University explores the history of UNC by exposing the plain and uncomfortable truth behind the storied brick walkways, "historic" statuary, and picturesque covered well, the icon of the campus. Law professor and civil rights activist Geeta N. Kapur chronicles the racism within the university and traces its insidious effects on students, faculty, and even the venerable Tarheel sports programs. Kapur tells this story not as a historian, but as a citizen speaking to her fellow citizens. She relies on the historical record to tell her story, and where that record is lacking, she elaborates on that record, augmenting and deconstructing the standard chronology. Kapur explores both the Chapel Hill campus and a parallel movement in nearby Durham, where a growing Black middle class helped to create North Carolina Central University, a historically Black public university"--
Subjects: North Carolina Central University; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; African American college students; African Americans; Civil rights movements; College integration; Discrimination in higher education; Ethnohistory; Minority college students; Racism in higher education; Racism; Segregation in higher education; Segregation; Slave labor; White supremacy movements; Racism.;
Available copies: 16 / Total copies: 17
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Black and hispanic enrollment in higher education, 1978 : trends in the nation and the South / by Mingle, James R.(James Richard);
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Statistics.; African Americans; Minorities;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Trends in Latino college access and success : investing in higher education for Latinos / by Liu, Michelle Camacho.(CARDINAL)313557; National Conference of State Legislatures.(CARDINAL)158788;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Statistics.; Hispanic Americans; Minority college students;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Toward equal opportunity for higher education; report. by Panel on Financing Low-income and Minority Students in Higher Education.(CARDINAL)224668;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Children with social disabilities; Educational equalization; Universities and colleges;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The dilemma of access : minorities in two year colleges / by Olivas, Michael A.(CARDINAL)144915; Alimba, Nan.(CARDINAL)144938;
Bibliography: pages 223-246.
Subjects: Minorities; Junior colleges;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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