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Cecil Brown

Dude, Where's My Black Studies Department?

The Disappearance of Black Americans from Our Universities

Buch

***WINNER, 2008 PEN Oakland - Josephine Miles National Literary Award Blacks have been vanishing from college campuses in the United States and reappearing in prisons, videos, and movies. Cecil Brown tackles this unwitting disappearing act head on, paying special attention to the situation at UC Berkeley and the University of California system generally. Brown contends that educators have ignored the importance of the oral tradition in African American upbringing, an oversight mirrored by the media. When these students take exams, their abilities are not tested. Further, university officials, administrators, professors, and students ar… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-55643-573-7
  • EAN: 9781556435737
  • Produktnummer: 2255161
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
  • Seitenangabe: 160 S.

Über den Autor


Cecil Brown holds a PhD in African-American Literature, Folklore, and Theory of Narrative from the University of California, Berkeley. He has published a number of novels, short stories, screenplays, and journal articles relating to African-American literature and life, and has taught classes in literature and popular culture at UC Berkeley, the University of San Francisco, and other universities throughout California.

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