Scarlet and Black, Volume Three: Making Black Lives Matter at Rutgers, 1945-2020 (Hardcover)

Scarlet and Black, Volume Three: Making Black Lives Matter at Rutgers, 1945-2020 By Miya Carey (Editor), Marisa J. Fuentes (Editor), Deborah Gray White (Editor), Roberto C. Orozco (Contributions by), Carie Rael (Contributions by), Brooke A. Thomas (Contributions by), Ian Gavigan (Contributions by), Pamela N. Walker (Contributions by), Joseph Williams (Contributions by), Kaisha Esty (Contributions by), Whitney Fields (Contributions by), Beatrice J. Adams (Contributions by), Jesse Bayker (Contributions by), Kenneth Morrissey (Contributions by), Edward White (Contributions by), Tracey Johnson (Contributions by), Joseph Kaplan (Contributions by), Meagan Wierda (Contributions by), Lynda Dexheimer (Contributions by) Cover Image
By Miya Carey (Editor), Marisa J. Fuentes (Editor), Deborah Gray White (Editor), Roberto C. Orozco (Contributions by), Carie Rael (Contributions by), Brooke A. Thomas (Contributions by), Ian Gavigan (Contributions by), Pamela N. Walker (Contributions by), Joseph Williams (Contributions by), Kaisha Esty (Contributions by), Whitney Fields (Contributions by), Beatrice J. Adams (Contributions by), Jesse Bayker (Contributions by), Kenneth Morrissey (Contributions by), Edward White (Contributions by), Tracey Johnson (Contributions by), Joseph Kaplan (Contributions by), Meagan Wierda (Contributions by), Lynda Dexheimer (Contributions by)
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Description


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 Three, concludes this groundbreaking documentation of 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 final of three volumes concludes the work of the Committee on Enslaved and Disenfranchised Population in Rutgers History. This latest volume includes essays about Black and Puerto Rican students' experiences; the development of the Black Unity League; the Conklin Hall takeover; the divestment movement against South African apartheid; anti-racism struggles during the 1990s; and the Don Imus controversy and the 2007 Scarlet Knights women's basketball team. 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.

About the Author


MIYA CAREY is is an assistant professor of history at Binghamton University. Her forthcoming manuscript examines the role of social organizations in coming-of-age black girls in Washington, DC, in the twentieth century. 
 
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.

Praise For…


"Scarlet and Black: Making Black Lives Matter at Rutgers, 1945-2020 highlights the power of students’ commitment to justice and equity," by John Cramer
— Rutgers Today

"Scarlet and Black: Making Black Lives Matter at Rutgers, 1945-2020 highlights the power of students’ commitment to justice and equity," by John Cramer
— Rutgers Today
Product Details
ISBN: 9781978827325
ISBN-10: 1978827326
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication Date: May 20th, 2021
Pages: 344
Language: English