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A Black intellectual's odyssey : from a Pennsylvania milltown to the Ivy League
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"Martin Kilson--the first tenured African American professor at Harvard--takes readers on a fascinating journey from his upbringing in a small Pennsylvania mill town to his experiences as an underg...
"Martin Kilson--the first tenured African American professor at Harvard--takes readers on a fascinating journey from his upbringing in a small Pennsylvania mill town to his experiences as an undergraduate to pursuing graduate study at Harvard before spending his entire career there as a faculty member."--Provided by publisher.
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- Creator
- Martin Kilson ; with a foreword by Cornel West ; and an afterword by Stefano Harney and Fred Moten
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- Language
- English
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- Durham : Duke University Press, 2021
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 195 pages) : illustrations
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- ISBNs
- 1478021519, 9781478021513, 9781478013297, 147801329X
- OCLC
- on1255181371
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Foreword. The one and only Martin Kilson / Cornel West -- Growing up in a northern Black community, 1930s-1940s -- A helping-hand ethos and Black social life, 1920s-1960s -- Melting-pot-friendly schools in my hometown, 1920s-1960s -- Black youth and social mobility, 1920s-1960s -- Ambler's social system and racial patterns, 1930s-1960s -- My Lincoln University years, 1949-1953: Part I -- My Lincoln University years, 1949-1953: Part II -- My Harvard Graduate School and teaching years -- Maturation : research and scholarship -- Epilogue. America's top political culture event in my lifetime : the election of Barack Obama -- Afterword. Notes on Professor Martin Luther Kilson's work / Stefano Harney and Fred Moten