{"product_id":"9780977790890","title":"Winners Never Quit: Marguerite Rogers Howie, African American Woman Sociologist","description":"\"Little has been written on the life of African-American scholars working \u003cp\u003ein traditionally black colleges and less has been written on the struggles \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof African-American women scholars. This work provides a lens through \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhich we are able to get a glimpse of the struggles, divisions, conflicts,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etensions, and solidarity that characterized African-American faculty at\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etraditionally black colleges in the South.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJust as macro-level history is most accessible through the close exami-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enation of one person's experiences in a particular social-historical context, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eso too the tensions at historically black colleges, the concerns of black in-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etellectual elite, and the status of structure of the black academic commu-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enity during the time of the desegragation of white colleges, all come alive \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein Professor Morgan's work.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Steven Worden, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Arkansas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book chronicles and captures the essence of the tribulations experi-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eenced by Black scholars and faculty in higher education from the 1900s \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto the present. . . . Hundreds of Black scholars of Higher Education (in-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecluding this reader) can relate to, and identify with, Professor Morgan's \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecomprehesive research and the history he has covered.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Talmadge Anderson, Professor Emeritus, Washington State University.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Academia Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49859472359664,"sku":"9780977790890","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780977790890","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}