Race and the University
A Memoir
In 1967, George Henderson, the son of uneducated Alabama sharecroppers, accepted a full-time professorship at the University of Oklahoma, despite his mentor's warning to avoid the redneck school in a backward state. Henderson became the university's third African American professor, a hire that seemed to suggest the dissolving of racial divides. However, when real estate agents in the university town of Norman denied the Henderson family their first three choices of homes, the sociologist and educator realized he still faced some formidable challenges.In this stirring memoir, Henderson recounts his formative years at the University of Oklahom…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8061-4655-3
- EAN: 9780806146553
- Produktnummer: 16330957
- Verlag: University Of Oklahoma Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 270 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.6 cm 420 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 420
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