The presses of some major Massachusetts universities offer appealing and noteworthy selections on Black history and education issues.
For this special edition on higher education in Massachusetts, Diverse Bookshelf gathered recent offerings from the presses of some of the state’s prestigious universities. They include titles on new research in Black history and topical issues in education:
Boycotts, Buses, And Passes: Black Women’s Resistance in the U.S. South and South Africa, by Pamela E. Brooks, $29.95, University of Massachusetts Press, (December 2008), ISBN-10: 1558496785, ISBN-13: 978-1558496781, pp. 320.
Oral histories from eyewitnesses provide rich material for an Oberlin College professor’s examination of the leadership roles that women took in the parallel movements for civil rights and human dignity in the United States and South Africa in the mid-1950s.
Innocents Abroad: American Teachers in the American Century, by Jonathan Zimmerman $18.95, Harvard University Press (December 2008), ISBN-10: 0674032063, ISBN-13: 978-0674032064, pp. 312.
