Point Of Reckoning: The Fight For Racial Justice At Duke University - 9781478010401

Point of Reckoning provides a highly-detailed portrait of the evolving relationship between Duke University's black students and the university administration from the moment of desegregation through the end of the 1960s, showing the enormous influence Jim Crow racial attitudes had over how these students were perceived and treated. Theodore D. Segal examines the role that race played in how Duke faculty, administrators and trustees perceived and responded to the school's new black students and the black students' attempts to find their place at Duke. It takes the reader inside" the evolving relationship between the black students and the university, telling the story in the words of the participants. The book explores the racial myths and justifications embraced by many at Duke who found change in race relations abhorrent, impolitic, inconvenient, or just uncomfortable"--

• | Author: Theodore D. Segal
• | Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• | Publication Date: February 05, 2021
• | Number of Pages: 400 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1478010401
• | ISBN-13: 9781478010401