After Emancipation

Racism and Resistance at the University of Virginia

Kirt von Daacke, Andrea Douglas, Kirt von Daacke, Andrea Douglas

• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9780813949253
• eBook ISBN: 9780813949277
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Counseling

Assessing a university’s legacy in the age of segregation

This anthology reckons with the University of Virginia’s post-emancipation history of racial exploitation. Its fifteen essays highlight the many forms of marginalization and domination at Virginia’s once all-white flagship university to uncover the patriarchal, nativist, and elitist assumptions that shaped university culture through the late nineteenth century and well into the twentieth. Including community responses ranging from personal reflections to interviews with local leaders to poems, this accessible volume will be essential reading for anyone with ties to UVA or to Charlottesville, as well as for anyone concerned with the legacy of slavery and segregation in America’s universities.
 

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Twenty-First-Century Truth-Telling
• Truth-Telling and Coming to Terms with UVA’s Hard Histories
• Response: A Reflection on the President’s Commissions, Their Work, and Telling the Truth
• The Lost Cause through Judge Duke’s Eyes
• Response: The Man of My Dreams—A Letter to Judge R. T. W. Duke Jr.
• Blackface and the Rise of a Segregated Society
• Response: Uncovering UVA’s “Hidden” History
• “An Imperfect Sketch” Revisited: Burkley Bullock’s Life and Legacy at UVA and Beyond
• Response: Learning from Family History
• When the KKK Flourished in Charlottesville
• Response: Truth Revealed
• Walter Reed and the Scourge of Yellow Fever
• Response: Four Black University of Virginia Doctors Discuss Black Virginians, Vaccination, and the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic
• Eugenics, the Racial Integrity Act, Health Disparities
• Response: The scholastic attainment of the Negro
• The George Rogers Clark Statue and Native Americans
• Response: Nanta ish ikhvna ha? Kucha hoh ilhkoli (What have you learned? Go outside)
• Winds of Change in the 1950s
• Response: Trifling Breezes in the Face of Continuing Bigotry and Systemic Racism
• “A Race So Different” Asians and Asian Americans in UVA’s History
• Response: We Are Not Invisible
• Property and Power
• Response: Ties That Bind—From Covenants to Zoning, a University and City United
• Confronting Labor Discrimination
• Response: Can the Damage Done to Blacks Be Repaired?
• The University of Virginia in the Era of Massive Resistance
• Response: Interview with Edward Harris
• Allies of Integration
• Response: Unfinished Business
• Closing Response. I Am My Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams—Black at UVA in the Twenty-First Century
• Notes on Contributors
• Index