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Title Creating community : life and learning at Montgomery's black university / edited by Karl E. Westhauser, Elaine M. Smith, and Jennifer A. Fremlin.

Publication Info. Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, [2005]
©2005

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents You can go home again / Kathy Dunn Jackson -- E pluribus unum : discovering multiculturalism / Virginia M. Jones -- Genesis of the National Center for the Study of Civil Rights and African-American Culture / Janice R. Franklin -- I go to college / Frank E. Moorer -- Living a womanist legacy / Elaine M. Smith -- I pledge allegiance to my "black-eyed susan" university / Annie P. Markham -- Portrait of the artist as a young white man / Robert Ely -- City on a hill / Karl E. Westhauser -- Called home / Margaret Holler Stephens -- "You're not white, you're Canadian" : where I belong / Jennifer A. Fremlin -- The color brown : an Asian's perspective / Sunita George.
Summary A community of inquiry and pride in central Alabama. Creating Community explores how faculty members at Alabama State University, a historically black university in Montgomery, have been inspired by the legacy of African American culture and the civil rights movement and how they seek to interpret and extend that legacy through teaching, scholarship, and service. Authors describe a wide range of experiences from the era of segregation to the present day. These include accounts of growing up and going to college in Alabama, arriving in the South for the first time to teach at ASU, and the develo.
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Subject Alabama State University -- History.
Alabama State University.
History.
Alabama State University -- Faculty -- Anecdotes.
Genre/Form Anecdotes.
Subject African American universities and colleges -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- History.
African American universities and colleges.
Alabama -- Montgomery.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books -- Anecdotes -- History.
History.
Essays.
Essays.
Anecdotes.
Added Author Westhauser, Karl E. (Karl Edwin), 1961-
Smith, Elaine M., 1942-
Fremlin, Jennifer A. (Jennifer Anne), 1962-
Other Form: Print version: Creating community. Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©2005 9780817354992 0817354999 (OCoLC)181603522
ISBN 9780817380427 (electronic book)
0817380426 (electronic book)
0817314636 (print)
9780817314637 (print)
9780817354992 (print)
0817354999 (print)