Lynn Rainville

Broschiertes Buch

Invisible Founders

How Two Centuries of African American Families Transformed a Plantation into a College

Beschreibung

Literal and metaphorical excavations at Sweet Briar College reveal how African American labor enabled the transformation of Sweet Briar Plantation into a private women's college in 1906. Despite being built and maintained by African American families, the college did not integrate its student body for sixty years after it opened. Invisible Founders challenges our ideas of what a college "founder" is, restoring African American narratives to their deserved and central place in the story of a single institution.

Autor

Lynn Rainville is the associate dean at Sweet Briar College in Virginia, where she also directs an institute for public history. She has spent the last two decades studying historic American cemeteries, segregated schools, enslaved communities, poor farms and World War I.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 346g
• ISBN-13: 9781800734449
• ISBN-10: 1800734441
• Artikelnr.: 62394605