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Ebony And Ivy: Race, Slavery, And The Troubled History Of America's Universities (2013)

by Craig Steven Wilder(Favorite Author)

3.77 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1596916818 (ISBN13: 9781596916814)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Bloomsbury Press

review 1: I'm reading some of the posts from Anglo critics of this book and I think they may not understand how to read this book. I did a 10 part radio series on this book and I can assure you that it is an important read and also an extremely well written work. I believe that it got deeper and deeper as it went along which is the exact opposite of most academic works which start off strong and then get light. At around the 3rd quarter of Ebony & Ivy, Dr Wilder begins to unravel the historical facts around the European obsession with "race" "science" and grave robbing and how the African penis became a trophy for Anglo "academics" who testified that women could birth dark skinned babies by having black ink fall into their shoes. Or how complexion becomes an animated method of commu... morenication for subhuman Europeans. Seems to me that the negative reviews on goodreads might have more to do with ancestral culpability or a fundamental misunderstanding of the malicious character of the Europeans.
review 2: The pun in the title was too good for the author to pass up, but it's rather misleading. I was expecting a book that traced the culture of slaveholding from the foundation of ivy league institutions in the 1700's through the present day legacy of discrimination, affirmative action, and the aftermath of Brown v. Board. Instead, this book focuses almost exclusively on the 18th century and can be summed up with the sentence, "Early American colleges were founded by wealthy slaveowners, exploited Indian and African slave labor, and ensured generations of educated, privileged white Americans to whom slavery was not only accepted, but necessary." less

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