Stefan M. Bradley is Coordinator for Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives and Professor of African American Studies in the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He is author of Harlem vs. Columbia University: Black Student Power in the Late 1960s and co-editor of Alpha Phi Alpha: A Legacy of Greatness, The Demands of Transcendence.
Upending the Ivory Tower is an engaging, revealing, fluid read.It
takes its place alongside some of the finest recent scholarship on
the Black Power and civil rights movements, including KendisThe
Black Campus Movement, Martha BiondisThe Black Revolution on
Campus, Peniel JosephsWaiting & Til the Midnight Hour:A Narrative
History of Black Power in America, and Jeanne Theoharis boldly
revisionistA More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and
Misuses of Civil Rights History.
*New York Journal of Books*
Upending the Ivory Tower is a definitive account of the experiences
of black students at the Ivy League universities from 1945 to 1975.
It is a brilliant book, complete with stunning
photographs...essential reading
*Academe*
Richly nuanced in its discussion of points of conflict and
affiliation with radical white students and divisions over tactics,
rhetoric, and ultimate goals among African Americans, both within
academia and in the surrounding communities.
*Journal of American History*
Fascinating and ambitious, Upending the Ivory Tower breathes of
meticulous research and analysis from beginning to end. With this
definitive chronicling of black students organizing, demanding, and
sometimes protesting to blacken the exclusively white Ivy League,
Stefan Bradley shows us once again why he is the historian of the
Ivy black activist. There may be nothing more powerful than the
student activist, and Upending the Ivory Tower again shows us
why.
*Ibram X. Kendi,award-winning author of The Black Campus Movement
and Stamped from the Beginning*
Stefan Bradley is one of the foremost scholars of the black student
movement. In Upending the Ivory Tower, he as turned his attention
black student activism in the Ivy League. This is a brilliant book
about how the Black Power Movement reached the elites halls of
higher education. In a moment when 21st century black student
activists in the Ivy League and across the country are demanding
more faculty of color, wanting more accountability for anti-black
pedagogy and policy, and declaring that black lives matter,
Upending the Ivory Tower is an important and necessary history of
black student activism in higher education.
*Derrick W. White,Dartmouth College*
Upending the Ivory Tower is a critical but scrupulous exposition of
some of the major changes that overtook the American academyand
American culture in generaltoward the end of the storied 1960s.
Although Stefan Bradley views these changes mainly through the lens
of the privileged Ivy League, he never loses sight of either the
steep price of such historic privilege or the more democratic and
equally dynamic mainstream of American university life. His book is
an invaluable record of institutional change in a few schools that
manages nevertheless to capture the spirit of a transformational
moment when some of our most venerable ideas about education, race,
and power changed forever.
*Arnold Rampersad,Sara Hart Kimball Professor Emeritus in the
Humanities, Stanford*
A significant contribution to Black Power Studies, the history of
the black student movement, and reform movements in US educational
institutions during the 1960s and 1970s. This is indeed a
microstudy that has large implications and it is refreshing that he
avoids the pitfalls of analyzing his cases studies in vacuo. His
book is also a prerequisite, required reading in fact, for any
explorations into contemporary expressions of black student
activism.
*The Journal of African American History*
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