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[Sutton] examines the development and unraveling of an experimental education initiative at Columbia University's School of Architecture that arose out of the school's 1968 student rebellions, aimed at recruiting of minority students and transforming the school's curriculum into "humanistic, justice-oriented" education... The recollections of the alumni that infuse and inform the text... give the book value as an oral history." -Publishers Weekly "Sutton tells a story that has yet to be told: a time, an era, a passion, a hope, a tale recounted with the skill and energy of a mystery novel. She tells of young people who believed that the injustices they found on their college campuses also believed that they could be righted, that racism could be battled and defeated. When Ivory Towers Were Black encourages us to reflect on the dreams, hopes, battles and defeats as a way of measuring how far we have come-and how far there is yet to go." -- -Diane Ghirardo University of Southern California

When Ivory Towers Were Black A Story about Race

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      Publisher: Fordham University Press
      Publication Date: 01/03/2017
      ISBN13: 9780823276127, 978-0823276127
      ISBN10: 0823276120
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      [Sutton] examines the development and unraveling of an experimental education initiative at Columbia University's School of Architecture that arose out of the school's 1968 student rebellions, aimed at recruiting of minority students and transforming the school's curriculum into "humanistic, justice-oriented" education... The recollections of the alumni that infuse and inform the text... give the book value as an oral history." -Publishers Weekly "Sutton tells a story that has yet to be told: a time, an era, a passion, a hope, a tale recounted with the skill and energy of a mystery novel. She tells of young people who believed that the injustices they found on their college campuses also believed that they could be righted, that racism could be battled and defeated. When Ivory Towers Were Black encourages us to reflect on the dreams, hopes, battles and defeats as a way of measuring how far we have come-and how far there is yet to go." -- -Diane Ghirardo University of Southern California

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