Blacks at Harvard

Werner Sollors (Editor)Werner Sollors is Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor , Emeritus, of English Literature and Professor of Afro-American Studies. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including The Multilingual Anthology of American Literature, Theories of Ethnicity: A Classical Reader, and Multilingual America: Transnationalism, Ethnicity, and the Languages of American Literature, all available from NYU Press.Caldwell Titcomb (Editor)Caldwell Titcomb was Professor Emeritus of Music at Brandeis University and wrote widely on aspects of black culture.Thomas A. Underwood (Editor)Thomas Underwood is Senior Lecturer (Master Level) at Boston University, and the author of Allen Tate: Orphan of the South and coeditor of The Southern Agrarians and the New Deal: Essays after I'll Take My StandRandall Kennedy (Editor)Randall Kennedy is Professor at Harvard Law School and the editor of Reconstruction magazine.Randall Kennedy (Editor)Randall Kennedy is Michael R. Klein Professor of law at Harvard Law School. He is author of several books and scholarly articles, including For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law (Vintage Books, 2013); The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency (Vintage Books, 2011); and Race, Crime, and the Law (Vintage Books, 1998), which won the 1998 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award.

This book brings together for the first time two hundred years of reflection on the curious relation of black culture to Harvard, and Harvard's complex relation to black people.