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Informationen zum Autor KENDRA BOYD is an assistant professor of history at York University. MARISA J. FUENTES is an associate professor in women’s and gender studies and history at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She was recently appointed presidential term chair in African American history. She is the author of Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive. DEBORAH GRAY WHITE is a Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is the author or editor of numerous books including, Ar’n’t I A Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South. Klappentext Scarlet and Black, Volume Two continues the work of the Committee on Enslaved and Disenfranchised Population in Rutgers History. This latest volume includes an introduction to the period from the end of the Civil War through WWII , a study of the first black students at Rutgers and New Brunswick Theological Seminary, and profiles of the earliest black women to matriculate at Douglass College. Zusammenfassung This second of a planned three volumes continues the work of the Committee on Enslaved and Disenfranchised Population in Rutgers History. This latest volume includes: an introduction to the period studied; a study of the first black students at Rutgers; and an analysis of African-American life in the City of New Brunswick. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Deborah Gray White Chapter 1: “All the World’s A Classroom: The First Black Students at Rutgers College and New Brunswick Theological Seminary Encounter Racial Ideology, Missionary Impulses and the Intellectual Life of the University” Tracey Johnson, Eri Kitada, Meagan Wierda, and Joseph Williams Chapter 2: “In the Shadow of Old Queens: African American Life and Labors in New Brunswick from the End of Slavery to the Industrial Era” Caitlin Wiesner, Pamela Walker, Brenann Sutter, and Shari Cunningham Chapter 3: “The Rutgers Race Man: Early Black Students at Rutgers College” Beatrice J. Adams, Shauni Armstead, Shari Cunningham, Tracey Johnson Chapter 4: “Profiles in Courage: Breaking the Color Line at Douglass College” Miya Carey and Pamela Walker Chapter 5: “Race as Reality and Illusion: The Baxter Cousins, NJC and Rutgers University” Shaun Armstead and Jerrad P. Pacatte Epilogue Deborah Gray White ...
