{"product_id":"a-black-intellectuals-odyssey-9781478013297","title":"A Black Intellectuals Odyssey","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMartin 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A challenging, original, and exacting intellectual, Martin Kilson was also a generous, supportive teacher and mentor. His unforgettable voice permeates this memoir, which re-creates the world as he found it and then transformed it. The field of African and African American Studies owes a profound debt to his unyielding demand for scholarly rigor and also to his faith in its centrality to higher education.” -- Henry Louis Gates Jr.\u003cbr\u003e“As the first African American tenured professor at Harvard, Martin Kilson, marked a symbolic milestone in American higher education as part of a founding generation of Black professors in prestigious white institutions. This status makes him into a figure of historic import, so that how he saw himself becomes not just one man's story, but an indexical way of thinking about one's place in American life in a particular time and place. Intensely personal, \u003ci\u003eA Black Intellectual's Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e is an important intellectual text.” -- Nell Irvin Painter, Edwards Professor of American History Emerita, Princeton University\u003cbr\u003e\"Kilson’s \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e heightens the contradictions involved in what it means to be successful and Black in America. Indeed, it compels us to ask what success means in the context of a capitalist white supremacist heteronormative society.\" -- Joshua L. Crutchfield * Black Perspectives *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword. The One and Only Martin Kilson \/ Cornel West  ix\u003cbr\u003e Preface  xiii\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xv\u003cbr\u003e 1. Growing Up in a Northern Black Community, 1930s–1940s  1\u003cbr\u003e 2. A Helping-Hand Ethos and Black Social Life, 1920s–1960s  12\u003cbr\u003e 3. Melting-Pot-Friendly Schools in My Hometown, 1920s–1960s  29\u003cbr\u003e 4. Black Youth and Social Mobility, 1920s–1960s  40\u003cbr\u003e 5. Ambler: A Twentieth-Century Company Town  58\u003cbr\u003e 6. Lincoln University, 1949–1953, Part I  77\u003cbr\u003e 7. Lincoln University, 1949–1953, Part II  96\u003cbr\u003e 8. Harvard: Graduate School and Teaching  119\u003cbr\u003e 9. Maturation: Research and Scholarship  134\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. The Election of Barack Obama  148\u003cbr\u003e Afterword. Notes on Professor Martin Luther Kilson's Work \/ Stefano Harney and Fred Moten  161\u003cbr\u003e Selected List of Martin Kilson's Writings  173\u003cbr\u003e Notes  177\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  187\u003cbr\u003e Index  191","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408992706903,"sku":"9781478013297","price":23.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478013297.jpg?v=1782127709","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-black-intellectuals-odyssey-9781478013297","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}