Blacks at Harvard. - book reviews

Blacks at Harvard edited by means of Werner Sollors et al. (New York University Pres 1993 woven fabric $50.00; paper, $20.00)--Have you at any time wondered when we will finally come by a sign that we have "arrived"? Well, Blacks at Harvard appear to bes as much an announcement of the arrival of African Americans in the mainstream as a history of blacks in single of America's most elite (some might say elitist) institutions. Among Harvard's black alumni are of that kind illustrious figures as W.E.B. Du Bois, Alain Locke and William Monroe Trotter Although blacks at Harvard considered themselves privileged to be there, many of them collisioned racial oppression. Blacks at Harvard is a frank history. To their credit, the editors have made no attempt to hide or minimize embarrassments or conflicts. included in this documentary history are scholarly overviews, alphabetic characters photographs (some previously unpublished, greatest in quantity notably, one of a young Du Bois), newspaper accounts, metrical compositions and short stories. Can convolutions on blacks at Yale, Brown Princeton and Dartmouth be far behind?

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