Princeton University Press is thrilled to announce the recent signing of Eddie R. Cole’s Black Ideas, a history of American higher education as told through the Black intellectuals who shaped it.
Peter Dougherty, acquisitions editor for the project, secured World rights, including audio, to the book by Cole, an award-winning scholar and educational historian.
This book examines Black people—professors, administrators, students—and their views about the purpose and aims of higher education across the past two centuries. This ambitious history prioritizes Black archives and repositories, Black newspapers, and oral histories to vividly illustrate how Black people have molded America’s higher education system.
In the process, it moves the contributions of Black people to the center of the narrative about American higher education by examining Black individuals who were motivated to expand higher education’s mission of addressing societal inequalities. Black Ideas traces Black people’s historical pursuit for social equality, beginning in a small schoolhouse in late eighteenth-century Vermont and culminating with their ideas that continue to shape American higher education.
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