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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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press
2017.
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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.