Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: A Search for Identity -- 1. Boyhood Interrupted -- 2. Being Prepared -- 3. Experiment at Harvard -- 4. An Accidental Academic -- 5. Professing in a Small and Angry Place -- 6. The Brutal Retreat…
"Richard Theodore Greener (1844-1922) was a renowned black activist and scholar. In 1870, he was the first black graduate of Harvard College. During Reconstruction, he was the first black faculty member at a Southern white college, the University of South Carolina. He was even t…
"This book is a narrative biography of a subject who is intriguing in his own right, but is also exemplary of confounding perspectives on race and skin color then and now--probably more so now, with the enormous growth of a multiracial citizenry. 'Black' citizens always came in …
"This book is a narrative biography of a subject who is intriguing in his own right, but is also exemplary of confounding perspectives on race and skin color then and now--probably more so now, with the enormous growth of a multiracial citizenry. 'Black' citizens always came in …