Invisible Founders (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
232
Utgivningsdatum
2019-06-14
Förlag
Berghahn Books
Illustratör/Fotograf
22 illustrations
Illustrationer
22 illustrations
Dimensioner
231 x 155 x 20 mm
Vikt
477 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
414:B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Case Laminate on White w/Matte Lam
ISBN
9781789202311

Invisible Founders

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

av Lynn Rainville
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Literal and metaphorical excavations at Sweet Briar College reveal how African American labor enabled the transformation of Sweet Briar Plantation into a private womens college in 1906. This volume tells the story of the invisible founders of a college founded by and for white women. Despite being built and maintained by African American families, the college did not integrate its student body for sixty years after it opened. In the process, 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 one that serves as a microcosm of the American South.
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Invisible Founders is a different kind of history of the university and the Black past than most of those published in the past few years, but that is one that has much to offer individuals who are working to bring this history to light at their own institutions. Journal of Southern History

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Lynn Rainville is Director of Institutional History and Professor of Anthropology at Washington and Lee University and former Dean of Sweet Briar College.. For over two decades she has studied the lives of exceptional, yet overlooked, Americans. This work has been supported by numerous grants and she has written five books (on Mesopotamian houses, African American cemeteries, Sweet Briar College, and Virginias role in World War I). She directs the Tusculum Institute for local history and historic preservation at Sweet Briar College.

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List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Invisible Workers Chapter 2. Family Origins, 16851810 Chapter 3. Virginian Slavery, 18111830 Chapter 4. Survival Strategies, 18311857 Chapter 5. Families Divided, 18581865 Chapter 6. Freedom Communities, 18661883 Chapter 7. Mourning the Dead, 18841900 Chapter 8. Forgotten Founders, 19012001 Chapter 9. Commemorating Founders Bibliography Index

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