Martin Kilson

A Black Intellectual's Odyssey

From a Pennsylvania Milltown to the Ivy League

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Produktbeschreibung

Martin Kilson—the first tenured African American professor at Harvard—takes readers on a fascinating journey from his upbringing in a small Pennsylvania mill town to his experiences as an undergraduate to pursuing graduate study at Harvard before spending his entire career there as a faculty member.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9781478013297
• ISBN-10: 147801329X
• Artikelnr.: 60187737

Autorenporträt

Martin Kilson (1931–2019) was Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government Emeritus at Harvard University. He wrote and edited several books, including Transformation of the African American Intelligentsia, 1880–2012 , which won the 2015 American Book Award. He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Guggenheim Fellow, a member of the National Council on the Humanities, and a longtime member of the editorial board of Dissent. Cornel West is Dietrich Bonhoeffer Professor at Union Theological Seminary. Stefano Harney and Fred Moten are two of Martin Kilson’s many students. They are authors of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study and All Incomplete.  

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword. The One and Only Martin Kilson / Cornel West  ix
Preface  xiii
Acknowledgments  xv
1. Growing Up in a Northern Black Community, 1930s–1940s  1
2. A Helping-Hand Ethos and Black Social Life, 1920s–1960s  12
3. Melting-Pot-Friendly Schools in My Hometown, 1920s–1960s  29
4. Black Youth and Social Mobility, 1920s–1960s  40
5. Ambler: A Twentieth-Century Company Town  58
6. Lincoln University, 1949–1953, Part I  77
7. Lincoln University, 1949–1953, Part II  96
8. Harvard: Graduate School and Teaching  119
9. Maturation: Research and Scholarship  134
Epilogue. The Election of Barack Obama  148
Afterword. Notes on Professor Martin Luther Kilson's Work / Stefano Harney
and Fred Moten  161
Selected List of Martin Kilson's Writings  173
Notes  177
Bibliography  187
Index  191