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Book SynopsisWinner, 2019 Anna Julia Cooper and C.L.R. James Award, given by the National Council for Black StudiesFinalist, 2019 Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History, given by the African American Intellectual History SocietyWinner, 2019 Outstanding Book Award, given by the History of Education SocietyThe inspiring story of the black students, faculty, and administrators who forever changed America's leading educational institutions and paved the way for social justice and racial progress The eight elite institutions that comprise the Ivy League, sometimes known as the Ancient EightHarvard, Yale, Princeton, Penn, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, and Cornellare American stalwarts that have profoundly influenced history and culture by producing the nation's and the world's leaders. The few black students who attended Ivy League schools in the decades following WWII not only went on to greatly influence black America and the nation in general, but unquestionably awakened these most tradit
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Upending the Ivory Tower is an engaging, revealing, fluid read.It takes its place alongside some of the finest recent scholarship on the Black Power and civil rights movements, including KendisThe Black Campus Movement, Martha BiondisThe Black Revolution on Campus, Peniel JosephsWaiting & Til the Midnight Hour:A Narrative History of Black Power in America, and Jeanne Theoharis boldly revisionistA More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History." * New York Journal of Books *
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Upending the Ivory Tower is a definitive account of the experiences of black students at the Ivy League universities from 1945 to 1975. It is a brilliant book, complete with stunning photographs...essential reading" * Academe *
"Richly nuanced in its discussion of points of conflict and affiliation with radical white students and divisions over tactics, rhetoric, and ultimate goals among African Americans, both within academia and in the surrounding communities." * Journal of American History *
"Fascinating and ambitious,
Upending the Ivory Tower breathes of meticulous research and analysis from beginning to end. With this definitive chronicling of black students organizing, demanding, and sometimes protesting to blacken the exclusively white Ivy League, Stefan Bradley shows us once again why he is the historian of the Ivy black activist. There may be nothing more powerful than the student activist, and Upending the Ivory Tower again shows us why." -- Ibram X. Kendi,award-winning author of The Black Campus Movement and Stamped from the Beginning
"Stefan Bradley is one of the foremost scholars of the black student movement. In
Upending the Ivory Tower, he as turned his attention black student activism in the Ivy League. This is a brilliant book about how the Black Power Movement reached the elites halls of higher education. In a moment when 21st century black student activists in the Ivy League and across the country are demanding more faculty of color, wanting more accountability for anti-black pedagogy and policy, and declaring that black lives matter, Upending the Ivory Tower is an important and necessary history of black student activism in higher education." -- Derrick W. White,Dartmouth College
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Upending the Ivory Tower is a critical but scrupulous exposition of some of the major changes that overtook the American academyand American culture in generaltoward the end of the storied 1960s. Although Stefan Bradley views these changes mainly through the lens of the privileged Ivy League, he never loses sight of either the steep price of such historic privilege or the more democratic and equally dynamic mainstream of American university life. His book is an invaluable record of institutional change in a few schools that manages nevertheless to capture the spirit of a transformational moment when some of our most venerable ideas about education, race, and power changed forever." -- Arnold Rampersad,Sara Hart Kimball Professor Emeritus in the Humanities, Stanford
