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Forever in the Path: The Black Experience at Michigan State University de Pero G Dagbovie

Forever in the Path: The Black Experience at Michigan State University

Autor Pero G Dagbovie
en Limba Engleză Hardback – feb 2025

Considerăm că volumul Forever in the Path constituie o resursă academică esențială, remarcându-se prin studiile de caz detaliate despre pionierii care au transformat prima instituție de învățământ agricol din Statele Unite. Structura celor 23 de capitole propune o progresie analitică riguroasă, debutând cu perioada în care prezența persoanelor de culoare era „recunoscută prin absență” și evoluând spre momentele de cotitură ale secolului XX. Putem afirma că rigoarea cu care Pero G Dagbovie documentează aceste traiectorii individuale oferă o perspectivă practică asupra modului în care politicile instituționale au influențat destinele umane.

Remarcăm modul în care autorul integrează istoria sportului, precum faimoasa echipă de fotbal american, cu istoria academică și socială, oferind o viziune de ansamblu asupra campusului din East Lansing. Cititorii familiarizați cu Sing to the Colors de James Tobin vor aprecia în acest volum o focalizare mult mai specifică și exhaustivă asupra luptei pentru integrare, depășind simpla istorie nostalgică a unei universități pentru a explora tensiunile rasiale profunde. Spre deosebire de lucrări care tratează mediul universitar la modul general, Forever in the Path analizează concret impactul mișcării pentru drepturile civile asupra unei instituții de stat din Nord.

Progresia narativă, susținută de peste 600 de pagini de documentare, ne permite să înțelegem tranziția de la o segregare virtuală la o prezență activă care a redefinit identitatea Michigan State University. Textul în limba engleză este calibrat pentru un public academic, dar claritatea prezentării biografice îl face accesibil oricărui cercetător interesat de istoria educației superioare.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781611864946
ISBN-10: 1611864941
Pagini: 682
Ilustrații: 76
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 43 mm
Greutate: 1.73 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: Michigan State University Press
Colecția Michigan State University Press

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Recomandăm această lucrare istoricilor și sociologilor interesați de evoluția relațiilor rasiale în mediul universitar american. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a mecanismelor de integrare instituțională, documentată prin biografii remarcabile ale unor studenți și profesori de culoare. Este un instrument valoros pentru cursuri de istoria educației, oferind date concrete despre tranziția de la segregare la diversitate într-una dintre cele mai mari universități de stat din SUA.

Despre autor

Pero G Dagbovie este un istoric reputat și profesor la Michigan State University, specializat în istoria afro-americană și istoriografia neagră. Expertiza sa în cercetarea arhivelor universitare și a mișcărilor sociale este reflectată în numeroasele sale publicații academice. În Forever in the Path, Dagbovie își aplică rigoarea metodologică pentru a recupera voci uitate din trecutul instituției sale, demonstrând o capacitate excepțională de a îmbina biografia individuală cu analizele complexe de istorie intelectuală și socială, fiind o figură de referință în studiile despre experiența de culoare în sistemul educațional din Midwest.

Descriere scurtă

Forever in the Path: The Black Experience at Michigan State University offers a sweeping overview of the Black experience at America’s first agricultural college from the 1890s through the late twentieth century. In exploring the personalities, important events, and key turning points of Black life at the university, this book deftly blends intellectual history, social history, educational history, institutional history, and the African American biographical tradition. Pero G. Dagbovie depicts and imagines how his numerous subjects’ upbringings and experiences at the institution informed their futures, and how they benefitted from and contributed to MSU’s vision, mission, and transformative role in the history of higher education.
Michigan State University—founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan—has a fascinating past, a history shaped by vacillating local and national contexts as well as by people from different walks of life. The first Black students arrived on campus during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the first full-time Black faculty member was hired in the late 1940s. Before and after the modern Civil Rights Movement, African Americans from various backgrounds were transformed by MSU while also profoundly contributing in vital ways to the institution’s growth and evolving identity.

Notă biografică

Pero G. Dagbovie is a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of History, the vice provost for graduate and postdoctoral studies, and dean of the Graduate School at Michigan State University. His scholarship centers on African American history, twentieth-century U.S. history, the history of the U.S. historical profession, and the philosophy of history. He has authored seven books and numerous articles and essays, is the former editor of the Journal of African American History, and is on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals, including Michigan Historical Review, Modern American History, Journal of Black Studies, and Journal for the Study of Radicalism. Active in public history, Dagbovie served as a scholar consultant for the And Still We Rise permanent exhibit at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, the Organization of American Historians, and the National Park Service’s National Capital Region History Program (Northeast Capital Parks—East). He has also served as a consultant for history and social studies curriculum development with public school systems in Michigan and has led numerous teaching history workshops and summer institutes for secondary-school history teachers.

Cuprins

Contents
Preface
Introduction
Abbreviations
Chapter 1. Recognizably Absent
Chapter 2. Booker T. Washington and M.A.C.
Chapter 3. Black Culture Imagined in Collegeville
Chapter 4. Praise Song for Tuskegee
Chapter 5. Historic Commencement Ceremony
Chapter 6. Class of 1900 Honorable Mention
Chapter 7. Alumnus Extraordinaire
Chapter 8. Of the Highest Qualities of Character
Chapter 9. Spartan Superhero
Chapter 10. From Norfolk to East Lansing
Chapter 11. Merit Counts
Chapter 12. Of Football Fame
Chapter 13. Between the Wars Pathfinders
Chapter 14. It Is More Blessed to Give than Receive
Chapter 15. Chief
Chapter 16. Gridiron and Dairy Farm
Chapter 17. In Myrtle’s Footsteps
Chapter 18. Demanding Equal Opportunity, Serving Others
Chapter 19. And to Happen, of All Places, in Our Own State School
Chapter 20. Making of a Civil Rights Icon
Chapter 21. Forgotten Firsts from the Forties
Chapter 22. Virtually Segregated, Strength in (Small) Numbers
Chapter 23. Belated Welcome
Chapter 24. Early Black Student Movement
Chapter 25. Fair Housing Is a Must
Chapter 26. Apex of the Struggle
Chapter 27. Radical Departures
Chapter 28. Black Power Arrives in East Lansing
Chapter 29. McKissick’s and King’s Progeny
Chapter 30. Takeover
Chapter 31. Golden Age of Organizing
Chapter 32. I Heard It through the Grapevine
Chapter 33. Rise and Fall
Chapter 34. Black and Green and White
Chapter 35. Trailblazing Educators
Chapter 36. Anything but Silent Generationers
Chapter 37. Excellence in Mathematics, History, and Counseling
Chapter 38. A Century of Combined Service
Chapter 39. Shattering the Glass Ceiling
Chapter 40. A Historic Presidency
Chapter 41. 1989, the Number
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index

Recenzii

“Dagbovie’s comprehensive examination of Blacks at Michigan State University brings to light the struggles and triumphs of Black students at predominantly white institutions, and establishes Dagbovie as a new authoritative voice in Black higher education history. Concise and highly accessible, this is a masterful study at the intersection of African American history and studies and higher education.” — Derrick P. Alridge, Philip J. Gibson Professor of Education and director of the Center for Race and Public Education in the South, University of Virginia
 

“Forever in the Path: The Black Experience at Michigan State University is masterfully done. Dagbovie seamlessly weaves the histories of Black academic trailblazers, the land-grant university, and student life into a single volume. I am in awe. This book is a testament to inspiring stories of Black students, faculty, and administrators, whose world-changing efforts have been omitted from the public record. May we never forget them.” — Eddie R. Cole, author of The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom
 

“Dagbovie’s book is a welcome addition that humanizes Black student activists through rich biographies, inserts black faculty into the process of institutional transformation, and reminds us that the past can be inspiration for a more perfect future.” — Joy Ann Williamson-Lott, dean of the Graduate School and professor of the history of education, University of Washington
 

“Dagbovie’s exhaustively researched Forever in the Path introduces us to the Black students, staff, and faculty who courageously built the path to racial integration at Michigan State University during the twentieth century. Along the way, Dagbovie tells us how people and events on the local, state, and national stages influenced developments at MSU and how the university’s story fits into the larger historical picture. To understand the history of MSU this magnificent book is a must-read.” — Keith R. Widder, author of Michigan Agricultural College: The Evolution of a Land-Grant Philosophy, 1855–1925