Creating community life and learning at Montgomery's black university (University of Alabama Press, 2005)
Includes bibliographical references and index
You can go home again / Kathy Dunn Jackson -- E pluribus unum : discovering multiculturalism / Virginia M. Jones -- Genesis of the National Center for the Study of Civil Rights and African-American Culture / Janice R. Franklin -- I go to college / Frank E. Moorer -- Living a womanist legacy / Elaine M. Smith -- I pledge allegiance to my "black-eyed susan" university / Annie P. Markham -- Portrait of the artist as a young white man / Robert Ely -- City on a hill / Karl E. Westhauser -- Called home / Margaret Holler Stephens -- "You're not white, you're Canadian" : where I belong / Jennifer A. Fremlin -- The color brown : an Asian's perspective / Sunita George
A community of inquiry and pride in central Alabama. Creating Community explores how faculty members at Alabama State University, a historically black university in Montgomery, have been inspired by the legacy of African American culture and the civil rights movement and how they seek to interpret and extend that legacy through teaching, scholarship, and service. Authors describe a wide range of experiences from the era of segregation to the present day. These include accounts of growing up and going to college in Alabama, arriving in the South for the first time to teach at ASU, and the develo