Scarlet and Black, Volume Two: Constructing Race and Gender at Rutgers, 1865-1945

by Kendra Boyd (Editor), Marisa J. Fuentes (Editor), Deborah Gray White (Editor), Beatrice J. Adams (Contribution by), Shauni Armstead (Contribution by)

Overview

The 250th anniversary of the founding of Rutgers University is a perfect moment for the Rutgers community to reconcile its past, and acknowledge its role in the enslavement and debasement of African Americans and the disfranchisement and elimination of Native American people and culture. Scarlet and Black, Volume 2, continues to document the history of Rutgers’s connection to slavery, which was neither casual nor accidental—nor unusual. Like most early American colleges, Rutgers depended on slaves to build its campuses and serve its students and faculty; it depended on the sale of black people to fund its very existence. This second of a planned three volumes continues the work of the Committee on Enslaved and Disenfranchised Population in Rutgers History. This latest volume includes: an introduction to the period studied (from the end of the Civil War through WWII) by Deborah Gray White; a study of the first black students at Rutgers and New Brunswick Theological Seminary; an analysis of African-American life in the City of New Brunswick during the period; and profiles of the earliest black women to matriculate at Douglass College.

To learn more about the work of the Committee on Enslaved and Disenfranchised Population in Rutgers History, visit the project's website at http://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781978813021
Publisher:	Rutgers University Press
Publication date:	02/21/2020
Edition description:	Volume 2
Pages:	220
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	16 - 18 Years

About the Author

KENDRA BOYD is an assistant professor of history at York University.
 
MARISA J. FUENTES is an associate professor in women’s and gender studies and history at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She was recently appointed presidential term chair in African American history. She is the author of Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive. 

DEBORAH GRAY WHITE is a Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is the author or editor of numerous books including, Ar’n’t I A Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South.

Table of Contents

Introduction Deborah Gray White 1

1 All the World's a Classroom: The First Black Students Encounter the Racial, Religious, and Intellectual Life of the University Tracey Johnson Eri Kitada Meagan Wierda Joseph Williams 7

2 In the Shadow of Old Queens: African American Life and Labors in New Brunswick from the End of Slavery to the Industrial Era Caitlin Wiesner Pamela Walker Brenann Sutter Shari Cunningham 39

3 The Rutgers Race Man: Early Black Students at Rutgers College Beatrice J. Adams Shaun Armstead Shari Cunningham Tracey Johnson 72

4 Profiles in Courage: Breaking the Color Line at Douglass College Miya Carey Pamela Walker 106

5 Race as Reality and Illusion: The Baxter Cousins, NJC, and Rutgers University Shaun Armstead Jerrad P. Pacatte 132

Epilogue: The Forerunner Generation Deborah Gray White 155

Acknowledgments 159

Notes 161

List of Contributors 205

About the Editors 211

Editorial Reviews

"Latest Scarlet and Black Book Explores Lives of Rutgers’ First Black Students Decades before the civil rights era, the “forerunner generation” paved the way for desegregation" by Neal Buccino
 

Rutgers Today

"Rutgers announces release of newest publication of Scarlet and Black Project" by Madison McGay
https://www.dailytargum.com/article/2020/02/rutgers-announces-release-of-newest-publication-of-scarlet-and-black-project

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