Title A Black intellectual's odyssey : from a Pennsylvania milltown to the Ivy League / Martin Kilson ; with a foreword by Cornel West ; and an afterword by Stefano Harney and Fred Moten

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2021

Click on the following:
JSTOR eBooks

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xiv, 195 pages) : illustrations Contents Foreword. The one and only Martin Kilson / Cornel West -- Growing up in a northern Black community, 1930s-1940s -- A helping-hand ethos and Black social life, 1920s-1960s -- Melting-pot-friendly schools in my hometown, 1920s-1960s -- Black youth and social mobility, 1920s-1960s -- Ambler's social system and racial patterns, 1930s-1960s -- My Lincoln University years, 1949-1953: Part I -- My Lincoln University years, 1949-1953: Part II -- My Harvard Graduate School and teaching years -- Maturation : research and scholarship -- Epilogue. America's top political culture event in my lifetime : the election of Barack Obama -- Afterword. Notes on Professor Martin Luther Kilson's work / Stefano Harney and Fred Moten Summary "Martin Kilson--the first tenured African American professor at Harvard--takes readers on a fascinating journey from his upbringing in a small Pennsylvania mill town to his experiences as an undergraduate to pursuing graduate study at Harvard before spending his entire career there as a faculty member."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Description based on print version record digitized 2022. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Kilson, Martin. SUBJECT Kilson, Martin Kilson, Martin fast Subject African American political scientists -- Biography African American educators -- Biography African American college teachers -- Biography African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies African American college teachers African American educators African American political scientists African Americans -- Intellectual life Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works) Biographies Autobiographies Autobiographies. Autobiographies. Form Electronic book Author West, Cornel, writer of foreword. Harney, Stefano, 1962- writer of afterword. Moten, Fred, writer of afterword. LC no. 2020046922 ISBN 1478021519 9781478021513

  Permalink