Historically Black Colleges and Universities in a Globalizing World

Alem Hailu is associate professor of African studies at Howard University.Mohamed S. Camara is professor of African studies at Howard University. Sabella Ogbobode Abidde is professor of political science and member of the graduate faculty at Alabama State University.

• AbbreviationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart One: A Rich and Consequential HeritageChapter 1: Howard University and the African World: A Commentary Alem HailuChapter 2: The Creation of a University: John Manuel Gandy and Virginia State University, 1914-1943 Oscar R. WilliamsChapter 3: ‘The Struggle Staggers Us’: The Institute for the Study of the History, Life, and Culture of Black People at Jackson State College, 1968-1979 Rico Devara Chapman and D. Caleb Smith Chapter 4: “Art and Activism as HBCU Tradition” Elizabeth Carmel HamiltonPart Two: Enduring and Evolving Roles of HbcusChapter 5: “Keeping It Real” on the Decline of HBCU Student Enrollment: A Content Analysis on Rhetoric in PracticeIvon Alcime; Ashla Hill Roseboro; and Carlos MorrisonChapter 6: 21st Century HBCU Students: Living in An Era of Oppression Carla BrownChapter 7: Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Laboratories for Social and Political Activism Regina M. Moorer Part Three:

Historically Black Colleges and Universities in a Globalizing World is an impressive collection of interdisciplinary chapters that underscores the transformative agency and challenges of HBCUs in higher education, knowledge production, and dissemination, and as catalysts in the development of human capital and sociopolitical activism in the United States and across the globe. It is highly recommended.