{"product_id":"black-power-on-campus-the-university-of-illinois-196575-9780252079719","title":"Black Power on Campus  The University of Illinois","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharts the evolution of black consciousness on predominately white American campuses during the critical period between the mid-1960s and mid-1970s, with the Black student movement at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign serving as an illuminating microcosm of similar movements across the country.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A superbly written historical study focusing on one of the most controversial periods in American higher education reform.\"--\u003ci\u003eEducation Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Williamson has made a very worthwhile contribution to our understanding of a complex, turbulent chapter in American higher education. She provides an essential background for the period she explores, a well researched and sensitive description of Black activism as it found expression on campus between 1965 and 1975. Equally interesting is her analysis of the sharp decline in activism by the mid-1970s\"--Richard P. McCormick, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Black Student Protest Movement and Rutgers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Offers a rich and complex view of the various ways black students sought to construct their social, political and racial identities, while helping to, in part, reform the University of Illinois for future generations of racially underrepresented students.\"--\u003ci\u003eHistory of Education Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Frank, well-reasoned, and appropriately multifaceted. . . . An important case study, and a fine historical analysis.\"--\u003ci\u003eJournal of African American History\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400496095575,"sku":"9780252079719","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252079719.jpg?v=1730470823","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/black-power-on-campus-the-university-of-illinois-196575-9780252079719","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}