Status
Available
Call number
Collection
Publication
New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2013.
Description
A leading African American historian of race in America exposes the uncomfortable truths about race, slavery, and the American academy, revealing that leading universities, dependent on human bondage, became breeding grounds for the racist ideas that sustained it.
Call number
Education / Wilder
Language
ISBN
9781596916814
Awards
Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (Nominee — Nonfiction — 2014)
BCALA Literary Awards (Winner — Nonfiction — 2014)
Booklist Editor's Choice: Adult Books (Social Sciences — 2013)
Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year (Nonfiction — 2013)
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