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Synopsis
The memoir of a young black man moving from rural Georgia to life as a student and teacher in the Ivy League, and a history of the changes in American education that developed in response to the Civil Rights Movement. Born in 1950, Porter goes from rural Georgia to Amherst College.
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Horace Porter is chair of African American World Studies and professor of English at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Jazz Country: Ralph Ellison in America (Iowa 2001) and Stealing the Fire: The Art and Protest of James Baldwin.
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The Making of a Black Scholar: From Georgia to the Ivy League
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University of Iowa Press, 2003
ISBN 10: 0877458359
ISBN 13: 9780877458357
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The Making of a Black Scholar: From Georgia to the Ivy League (signed)
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The University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, 2003
ISBN 10: 0877458359
ISBN 13: 9780877458357
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine dust jacket. First Printing of the First Edition. Iowa City: The University of Iowa Press, 2003. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR directly on the half title page (signed copies are RARE). The inscription is to a fellow University of Iowa professor [and two others]. Fine condition in a bright and shiny Fine dust jacket. NO chips or tears. NOT a remainder. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. 2014. First printing of the First Edition with complete number row (54321) on the copyright page. Bound in the original tan boards with a black cloth spine stamped in bright silver. From the dust jacket: "This captivating and illuminating book is a memoir of a young black man moving from rural Georgia to life as a student and teacher in the Ivy League as well as a history of the changes in American education that developed in response to the civil rights movement, the war in Vietnam, and affirmative action. Born in 1950, Horace Porter starts out in rural Georgia in a house that has neither electricity nor running water. In 1968, he leaves his home in Columbus, Georgia -- thanks to an academic scholarship to Amherst College -- and lands in an upper-class, mainly white world. Focusing on such experiences in his American education, Porter's story is both unique and representative of his time. THE MAKING OF A BLACK SCHOLAR is structured around schools. Porter attends Georgia's segregated black schools until he enters the privileged world of Amherst College. He graduates (spending one semester at Morehouse College) and moves on to graduate study at Yale. He starts his teaching career at Detroit's Wayne State University and spends the 1980s at Dartmouth College and the 1990s at Stanford University. Porter writes about working to establish the first black studies program at Amherst, the challenges of graduate study at Yale, the infamous DARTMOUTH REVIEW, and his meetings with such writers and scholars as Ralph Ellison, Tillie Olsen, James Baldwin, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. He ends by reflecting on an unforeseen move to the University of Iowa, which he ties into a return to the values of his childhood on a Georgia farm. In his success and the fulfillment of his academic aspirations, Porter represents an era, a generation, of possibility and achievement.". INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. 8vo. (xii), 159pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. Seller Inventory # 026172