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Harris, Richard H.
Growing Up Black in South Madison
Growing Up Black in South Madison
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Dr. Harris was born in 1937 in Madison, Wisconsin, grew up in South Madison and attended the Madison Public Schools. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a BS in 1961, the University of Illinois-Chicago with a MSW in 1964 and later received his Ph. D. in Educational Administration from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Unlike a number of stories by Black authors, this book does not describe life in a large city urban ghetto or from the sweltering heat of the deep segregated south, but instead describes life in a medium-sized northern city, from 1942 to 1978. The city is Madison, capitol of the Midwestern state of Wisconsin. It is a city,home to the University of Wisconsin, in which its white inhabitants were considered sophisticated, enlightened, well-educated, liberal and fair-minded. It is a city in which whites prided themselves as being fair, where people, regardless of race were supposedly treated with respect and dignity.
Dr. Harris does not describe his upbringing as being filled with the adjectives in the previous paragraph. Instead he describes a city where some white inhabitants treated their Black brothers and sisters in a racist and discriminatory fashion. Dr. Harris felt that some whites that he knew or had contact with were fair-minded people. He further states however that there were some whites that he knew personally or had heard about, who were some of the most Brutally Racist white people that he knew.
His book describes his life from a small Black boy, to a young teen, to a mature man living in this type of world. At this time, the entire country was going through a civil rights and Black Power (Radical) movement that covered all of the United States; this included Madison Wisconsin.
Unlike a number of stories by Black authors, this book does not describe life in a large city urban ghetto or from the sweltering heat of the deep segregated south, but instead describes life in a medium-sized northern city, from 1942 to 1978. The city is Madison, capitol of the Midwestern state of Wisconsin. It is a city,home to the University of Wisconsin, in which its white inhabitants were considered sophisticated, enlightened, well-educated, liberal and fair-minded. It is a city in which whites prided themselves as being fair, where people, regardless of race were supposedly treated with respect and dignity.
Dr. Harris does not describe his upbringing as being filled with the adjectives in the previous paragraph. Instead he describes a city where some white inhabitants treated their Black brothers and sisters in a racist and discriminatory fashion. Dr. Harris felt that some whites that he knew or had contact with were fair-minded people. He further states however that there were some whites that he knew personally or had heard about, who were some of the most Brutally Racist white people that he knew.
His book describes his life from a small Black boy, to a young teen, to a mature man living in this type of world. At this time, the entire country was going through a civil rights and Black Power (Radical) movement that covered all of the United States; this included Madison Wisconsin.
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