Creating Community: Life and Learning at Montgomery's Black University - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0817314636 ISBN 13: 9780817314637

Publisher: University of Alabama Press, 2005

Synopsis

A community of inquiry and pride in central Alabama. ""Creating Community"" explores how faculty members at Alabama State University, a historically black university in Montgomery, have been inspired by the legacy of African American culture and the civil rights movement and how they seek to interpret and extend that legacy through teaching, scholarship, and service. The authors describe a wide range of experiences from the era of segregation to the present day. These include accounts of growing up and going to college in Alabama, arriving in the South for the first time to teach at ASU, and the development of programs such as the National Center for the Study of Civil Rights and African American Culture. Together, the essays present viewpoints that reflect the diverse ethnic, cultural, and academic backgrounds of the contributors and of the university.

About this title

About the Author

Karl E. Westhauser is Associate Professor of History, Elaine M. Smith is retired Assistant Professor of History, and Jennifer A. Fremlin is Associate Professor of English and Humanities, all at Alabama State University.

From the Back Cover

A diverse community of inquiry and pride in central Alabama. The voices speak about what it means to be a black college, what it means to be Alabamian by birth or migration, southerness from insider and outsider perspectives, and community in a historical vacuum of islandism. The voices speak about faculty roles and responsibilities in the changing landscape of higher education and generational spurts in the student population. The voices speak about unintelligible whisperings of unknown and unnamed things that may or may not exist. To the extent that "Creating Community" gives voice to any one of these areas of comment, it fills a great gap in our knowing and serves a most useful purpose. "-- "M. Christopher Brown II, author of "The Quest to Define Collegiate Desegregation"
With contributions by Robert Ely, Janice R. Franklin, Jennifer A. Fremlin, Sunita George, Kathy Dunn Jackson, Virginia M. Jones, Annie P. Markham, John Moland Jr., Frank E. Moorer, Elaine M. Smith, Margaret Holler Stephens, Karl E. Westhauser "

From the Inside Flap

"Creating Community" explores how faculty members at Alabama State University, a historically black university in Montgomery, have been inspired by the legacy of African American culture and the civil rights movement and how they seek to interpret and extend that legacy through teaching, scholarship, and service. Authors describe a wide range of experiences from the era of segregation to the present day. These include accounts of growing up and going to college in Alabama, arriving in the South for the first time to teach at ASU, and the development of programs such as the National Center for the Study of Civil Rights and African American Culture. Together, the essays present viewpoints that reflect the diverse ethnic, cultural, and academic backgrounds of the contributors and of the university.
"Creating Community" is informed by the awareness that Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have responded in significant ways to social changes of the past generation, and it addresses questions about the role of the black university in contemporary society. In this way, it offers readers the opportunity to understand how issues of diversity, identity, multiculturalism, and race impact Alabama State University in particular and HBCUs in general.
Karl E. Westhauser is Associate Professor of History, Elaine M. Smith is retired Assistant Professor of History, and Jennifer A. Fremlin is Associate Professor of English and Humanities, all at Alabama State University."

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Alabama Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0817314636
• ISBN 13: 9780817314637
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Westhauser Karl E., Smith Elaine M., Fremlin Jennifer A.