Bending the Academic Color Line: Allison Davis, the University of Chicago, and American Race Relations, 1941-1948

Autor/in	Varel, David A.
Titel	Bending the Academic Color Line: Allison Davis, the University of Chicago, and American Race Relations, 1941-1948
Quelle	In: Journal of Negro Education, 84 (2015) 4, S.534-546 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-2984
DOI	10.7709/jnegroeducation.84.4.0534
Schlagwörter	Racial Relations; Race; Social Change; African American Achievement; African American History; Tenure; College Faculty; Anthropology; Social Class; Social Scientists; African American Teachers; Faculty Promotion; Academic Rank (Professional); Minority Group Teachers; Whites; Racial Integration; Civil Rights; Desegregation Effects; Institutional Characteristics; Illinois (Chicago) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rasse; Abstammung; Sozialer Wandel; Amtszeit; Beschäftigungsdauer; Fakultät; Anthropologie; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Social scientist; Sozialwissenschaftler; African Americans; Teacher; Teachers; Afroamerikaner; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; White; Weißer; Rassenintegration; Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht
Abstract	The purpose of this study was to explore the dynamics of racial change through the landmark appointment of the Black social scientist, Allison Davis, to the faculty of the University of Chicago in 1942. As archival materials make clear, the appointment came to fruition through the collaboration of powerful White liberals at the Julius Rosenwald Fund and the University of Chicago, who seized upon a changing racial climate to challenge the color line and appoint an exemplary Black intellectual. This study aims to show how Davis's desegregating appointment succeeded in furthering progressive research and in demonstrating Blacks' abilities to a national audience, but ultimately accomplished little by way of combating the institutional racism within the academy and the larger society. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01