Black Campus Movement

Ibram X. Kendi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, USA, and the director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research. He is the author of many books, including the National Book Award winner Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, and the #1 New York Times bestseller How to Be an Antiracist. Time magazine has named Kendi one of the 100 most influential people in the world. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship, and MacArthur Fellowship, popularly known as the Genius Grant.

• Introduction.- 1. An “Island Within”: Black Students in the 19th Century.- 2. “We Were Invisible”: Black Students in the 20th Century.- 3. “Fighting Back!”: The Making of the New Negro.- 4.  “God Speed the Breed”: The New Negro Campus Movement.- 5.  “Strike While the Iron is Hot”: Early Civil Rights Student Activism.- 6. “Justice Is All We Want”: Black Students and Desegregation.- 7. “March That Won’t Turn Around”: The Making of the Black Campus Movement.- 8.  “A New Awareness”: Movement Speakers, Conferences, and Periodicals.- 9. “The Black Student is Demanding”: The Black Campus Movement, 1965-1968.- 10.  “We’re Going to Get What We Want Now”: The Black Campus Movement, 1969-1972.- 11. “A Fly in Buttermilk”: Organizations and Demands.- 12.  “A New Sense of My Black Self”: Protests and Support.- 13. “American Version of Storm Troopers”: Opposition and Repression, 1965-1968.- 14. “Black Jim Crow Studies”: Opposition and Repression, 1969-1972.- 15. “Black Students Refuse to Pass the Buck”: The Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education.- Epilogue: Backlash and Forward Lashes.