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*
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