Black Scholar: Horace Mann Bond, 1904-72 - Softcover

Urban, Wayne J.

9780820316444: Black Scholar: Horace Mann Bond, 1904-72

Softcover

ISBN 10: 082031644X ISBN 13: 9780820316444

Publisher: University of Georgia Press, 1994

This volume chronicles the life and career of the historian, teacher and university administrator, Horace Mann Bond. It discusses his prodigious early output of scholarly books and articles, and his career-long interest in what he felt were affinities between Africans and African Americans.

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Review:

"Provides a balanced view in illuminating not only Bond's strengths but also his weaknesses."--"Journal of American History"

"Does a solid job of tracing Bond's career and, equally important, of placing Bond in the larger context of struggle that gripped black scholars and leaders of his generation-the struggle between protest and accommodation."--"Choice"

"The portrait of Bond that Urban paints is of an individual who yearned for the career of a scholar and teacher but who seemed driven to assume administrative positions that were neither personally nor professionally satisfying. . . . Urban provides an account that any academic contemplating an administrative career would be well-advised to read and ponder. . . . A well-written and thoroughly researched book."--"American Journal of Education"

"In telling Bond's story, Wayne Urban illuminates the challenges faced by African-American scholars early in the twentieth century."--"Harvard Educational Review"

"Provides a helpful case study of the racial restrictions and heavy burdens placed on twentieth-century African American leaders."--"History of Education Quarterly"

"Those scholars interested in understanding the racial and political forces active within black higher education before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 would do well to begin their research by reading Urban's work."--"Georgia Historical Quarterly"

Provides a balanced view in illuminating not only Bond's strengths but also his weaknesses.--"Journal of American History"

In telling Bond's story, Wayne Urban illuminates the challenges faced by African-American scholars early in the twentieth century.--"Harvard Educational Review"

Does a solid job of tracing Bond's career and, equally important, of placing Bond in the larger context of struggle that gripped black scholars and leaders of his generation-the struggle between protest and accommodation.--"Choice"

The portrait of Bond that Urban paints is of an individual who yearned for the career of a scholar and teacher but who seemed driven to assume administrative positions that were neither personally nor professionally satisfying. . . . Urban provides an account that any academic contemplating an administrative career would be well-advised to read and ponder. . . . A well-written and thoroughly researched book.--"American Journal of Education"

About the Author:

Wayne J. Urban is Associate Director of the Education Policy Center and Professor of Education at the University of Alabama. His other books include "Accountability in American Education"; "Why Teachers Organized"; "Gender, Race and the National Education Association: Professionalism and Its Limitations"; and "American Education: A History."

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