Uncompromising activist Richard Greener, first black graduate of Harvard College

"This book is a narrative biography of a subject who is intriguing in his own right, but is also exemplary of confounding perspectives on race and skin color then and now--probably more so now, with the enormous growth of a multiracial citizenry. 'Black' citizens always came in all sh...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Chaddock, Katherine Reynolds, 1945- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press 2017.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
The Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science. 132nd series (2017) ; 2.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b44679336*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Man Without a Race
  • Boyhood Interrupted
  • Being Prepared
  • Experiment at Harvard
  • An Accidental Academic
  • Professing in a Small and Angry Place
  • The Brutal Retreat
  • Unsettled Advocate
  • A Violent Attack and Hopeless Case
  • Monumental Plans
  • Off White
  • Our Man in Vladivostok
  • Closure in Black and White
  • Epilogue: The Passing of Richard Greener.