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

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0817354999 ISBN 13: 9780817354992

Publisher: The University of Alabama Press, 2008

Synopsis

This book describes the historically black university that thrives in Montgomery.""Creating Community"" explores how faculty members at Alabama State University, a historically black university in Montgomery, have been inspired by African American culture and the legacy of the civil rights movement. It also examines how they interpret and extend that inspiration through teaching, scholarship, and service. The contributors to the volume 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.

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Review:

The voices speak about what it means to be a black college, what it means to be an Alabamian by birth or migration, about southernness 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

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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

About this edition

• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0817354999
• ISBN 13: 9780817354992
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Westhauser Karl E., Smith Elaine M., Fremlin Jennifer A.