{"product_id":"race-and-the-university-a-memoir-9780806146553","title":"Race and the University: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1967, George Henderson, the son of uneducated Alabama sharecroppers, accepted a full-time professorship at the University of Oklahoma, despite his mentor's warning to avoid the \"redneck school in a backward state.\" Henderson became the university's third African American professor, a hire that seemed to suggest the dissolving of racial divides. However, when real estate agents in the university town of Norman denied the Henderson family their first three choices of homes, the sociologist and educator realized he still faced some formidable challenges.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this stirring memoir, Henderson recounts his formative years at the University of Oklahoma, during the late 1960s and early 1970s. He describes in graphic detail the obstacles that he and other African Americans faced within the university community, a place of \"white privilege, black separatism, and campus-wide indifference to bigotry.\" As an adviser and mentor to young black students who wanted to do something about these conditions, Henderson found himself at the forefront of collective efforts to improve race relations at the university. Henderson is quick to acknowledge that he and his fellow activists did not abolish all vestiges of racial oppression. But they set in motion a host of institutional changes that continue to this day. In Henderson's words, \"we were ordinary people who sometimes did extraordinary things.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCapturing what was perhaps the most tumultuous era in the history of American higher education, \u003ci\u003eRace and the University \u003c\/i\u003eincludes valuable recollections of former student activists who helped transform the University of Oklahoma into one of the nation's most diverse college campuses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLevy, David W.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eDavid W. Levy \u003c\/b\u003eis retired as the Irene and Julian J. Rothbaum Professor of Modern American History and David Ross Boyd Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eHerbert Croly of the New Republic: The Life and Thought of an American Progressive \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMark Twain: The Divided Mind of America's Best-Loved Writer \u003c\/i\u003eand coeditor of seven volumes of the letters of Supreme Court justice Louis D. Brandeis.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHenderson, George:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorge Henderson\u003c\/b\u003e is the Sylvan N. Goldman Professor Emeritus, David Ross Boyd Professor Emeritus, and Regents' Professor Emeritus of Human Relations, Education, and Sociology at the University of Oklahoma, where he founded the Human Relations Program and served as Dean of the College of Liberal Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Oklahoma Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50527329845522,"sku":"9780806146553","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ce55c0f8-875f-4c62-886e-661db8114742.jpg?v=1731297911","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/race-and-the-university-a-memoir-9780806146553","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}