 | Black Power on Campus Drawing on student publications of the late 1960s and early 1970s, as well as interviews with student activists, former administrators, and faculty, Williamson discusses the emergence of Black Power ideology, what constituted "blackness," and notions of self-advancement versus racial solidarity. Promoting an understanding of the role of black youth in protest movements, Black Power on Campus is an important contribution to the literature on African American liberation movements and the reform of American higher education. Joy Ann Williamson (now known as Joy Ann Williamson-Lott), an alumna of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is an associate professor of educational leadership and policy studies in the College of Education at the University of Washington. She is the author of Radicalizing the Ebony Tower: Black Colleges and the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi . |
