Christi M. Smith
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781469630687
- eISBN:
- 9781469630717
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469630687.003.0001
- Subject:
- Education, History of Education
How did efforts to shift racial boundaries through interracial education fail? This chapter introduces the 19th century Anti-Caste Movement and its goal of revising the social order such that – ...
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How did efforts to shift racial boundaries through interracial education fail? This chapter introduces the 19th century Anti-Caste Movement and its goal of revising the social order such that – through promoting colorblind ideology – race would no longer structure the American status hierarchy. I provide a theoretical introduction to the study of racial boundaries and provide a multi-level framework for analyzing the types of racial boundary processes that happen at the level of individual interactions, within organizations, through inter-organizational negotiation, and at the level of law-making and states. I then lay out my argument for studying integration as an organizational achievement and provide an overview of the subsequent chapters.Less
How did efforts to shift racial boundaries through interracial education fail? This chapter introduces the 19th century Anti-Caste Movement and its goal of revising the social order such that – through promoting colorblind ideology – race would no longer structure the American status hierarchy. I provide a theoretical introduction to the study of racial boundaries and provide a multi-level framework for analyzing the types of racial boundary processes that happen at the level of individual interactions, within organizations, through inter-organizational negotiation, and at the level of law-making and states. I then lay out my argument for studying integration as an organizational achievement and provide an overview of the subsequent chapters.
Christi M. Smith
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781469630687
- eISBN:
- 9781469630717
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469630687.001.0001
- Subject:
- Education, History of Education
Reparation and Reconciliation is the first book to reveal the nineteenth-century struggle for racial integration on U.S. college campuses. As the Civil War ended, the need to heal the scars of ...
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Reparation and Reconciliation is the first book to reveal the nineteenth-century struggle for racial integration on U.S. college campuses. As the Civil War ended, the need to heal the scars of slavery, expand the middle class, and reunite the nation engendered a dramatic interest in higher education by policy makers, voluntary associations, and African Americans more broadly. Formed in 1846 by Protestant abolitionists, the American Missionary Association united a network of colleges open to all, designed especially to educate African American and white students together, both male and female. The AMA and its affiliates envisioned integrated campuses as a training ground to produce a new leadership class for a racially integrated democracy. Case studies at three colleges--Berea College, Oberlin College, and Howard University--reveal the strategies administrators used and the challenges they faced as higher education quickly developed as a competitive social field.Less
Reparation and Reconciliation is the first book to reveal the nineteenth-century struggle for racial integration on U.S. college campuses. As the Civil War ended, the need to heal the scars of slavery, expand the middle class, and reunite the nation engendered a dramatic interest in higher education by policy makers, voluntary associations, and African Americans more broadly. Formed in 1846 by Protestant abolitionists, the American Missionary Association united a network of colleges open to all, designed especially to educate African American and white students together, both male and female. The AMA and its affiliates envisioned integrated campuses as a training ground to produce a new leadership class for a racially integrated democracy. Case studies at three colleges--Berea College, Oberlin College, and Howard University--reveal the strategies administrators used and the challenges they faced as higher education quickly developed as a competitive social field.
