Be Your Own Man”

Student Activism and the Birth of Black Studies at Amherst College, 1965–1972

Bibliographic Data

ID16306689
AuthorsKabria Baumgartner (0000-0003-3550-6995, Kabria Baumgartner is assistant professor of history at the College of Wooster. She is currently working on her book, A Right to Learn: African American Women and Educational Activism in Early America, which examines how free African American women campaigned for educational access and opportunity in the nominally free states of early America., corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume89
Issue2
Pages286-322
Publication date2016-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe New England Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0028-4866 • E-ISSN: 1937-2213
PublisherMIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1162/tneq_a_00531
OpenAlexW2407631022
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited3

Historians have examined how social movements influenced African American student activism in mid-to-late twentieth century America. This essay extends the scholarship by telling the story of African American male student activists who led the fight for curricular reform at Amherst College, then an all-male liberal arts college in Massachusetts. This local story reveals that African American student activism was driven by social movements as well as the distinctive mission of the liberal arts college

African american · Black male · Higher education · Liberal arts education · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Social activism · Social reform · Sociology · The arts · Anthropology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Higher Education Research Studies · Law · Race, History, and American Society

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