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When Ivory Towers Were Black lies at the potent intersection of race, urban development, and higher education. It tells the story of how an unparalleled cohort of ethnic minority students earned degrees from a world-class university. The story takes place in New York City at Columbia University's School of Architecture and spans a decade of institutional evolution that mirrored the emergence and denouement of the Black Power Movement. Chronicling a surprisingly little-known era in U.S. educational, architectural, and urban history, the book traces an evolutionary arc that begins with an unsettling effort to end Columbia's exercise of authoritarian power on campus and in the community, and ends with an equally unsettling return to the status quo. When Ivory Towers Were Black follows two university units that steered the School of Architecture toward an emancipatory approach to education early along its evolutionary arc: the school's Division of Planning and the university-wide Ford Foundation-funded Urban Center. It illustrates both units' struggle to open the ivory tower to ethnic minority students and to involve them, and their revolutionary white peers, in improving Harlem's slum conditions. The evolutionary arc ends as backlash against reforms wrought by civil rights legislation grew and whites bought into President Richard M. Nixon's law-and-order agenda. The story is narrated through the oral histories of twenty-four Columbia alumni who received the gift of an Ivy League education during this era of transformation but who exited the School of Architecture to find the doors of their careers all but closed due to Nixon-era urban disinvestment policies.When Ivory Towers Were Black assesses the triumphs and subsequent unraveling of this bold experiment to achieve racial justice in the school and in the nearby Harlem/East Harlem community. It demonstrates how the experiment's triumphs lived on not only in the lives of the ethnic minority graduates but also as best practices in university/community relationships and in the fields of architecture and urban planning. The book can inform contemporary struggles for racial and economic equality as an array of crushing injustices generate movements similar to those of the sixties and seventies. Its first-person portrayal of how a transformative process got reversed can help extend the period of experimentation, and it can also help reopen the door of opportunity to ethnic minority students, who are still in strikingly short supply in elite professions like architecture and planning. US News Latest National News Videos & Photos - ABC ABC News' Lana Zak gets tips on how to make the perfect guacamole from Oyamel Cocina Mexicana's head chef Omar Rodriguez International News Latest World News Videos & Photos Get the latest international news and world events from Asia Europe the Middle East and more See world news photos and videos at ABCNewscom The Monkey Trial - themonkeytrialcom The Movie: Inherit the Wind: The Facts: Trial of John Scopes: The statements under this column are either contained in or strongly implied by the popular Texarkana Gazette Texarkana Breaking News The Texarkana Gazette is the premier source for local news and sports in Texarkana and the surrounding Arklatex areas Elon Musk Wants to Turn the LA Underground Into a Giant The telescope in Kuntunse near Accra is the first of an array of such instruments expected to be built across Africa over the next five years and forms part of Donald Trump Suddenly Refuses to Talk About His False Donald Trump is still convinced that former president Barack Obama ordered wiretapping of Trump Tower last year despite a congressional investigation and multiple Environment: News & features - The Telegraph 23 Apr 2017 10:01pm Comment: With education and technology Brexit Britain can engineer its way to greater prosperity
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