Creating Community: Life and Learning at Montgomery's Black University - Hardcover

Creating Community explores how faculty members at Alabama State University, a historically black university in Montgomery, have been inspired by the legacy of African American culture and the civil rights movement and how they seek to interpret and extend that legacy through teaching, scholarship, and service. Authors describe a wide range of experiences from the era of segregation to the present day. These include accounts of growing up and going to college in Alabama, arriving in the South for the first time to teach at ASU, and the development of programs such as the National Center for the Study of Civil Rights and African American Culture. Together, the essays present viewpoints that reflect the diverse ethnic, cultural, and academic backgrounds of the contributors and of the university.

Contributors:  Robert Ely, Janice R. Franklin, Jennifer A. Fremlin, Sunita George, Kathy Dunn Jackson, Virginia M. Jones, Annie P. Markham, John Moland Jr., Frank E. Moorer, Elaine M. Smith, Margaret Holler Stephens, Karl E. Westhauser  

A diverse community of inquiry and pride in central Alabama.   The voices speak about what it means to be a black college, what it means to be Alabamian by birth or migration, southerness from insider and outsider perspectives, and community in a historical vacuum of islandism. The voices speak about faculty roles and responsibilities in the changing landscape of higher education and generational spurts in the student population. The voices speak about unintelligible whisperings of unknown and unnamed things that may or may not exist. To the extent that Creating Community gives voice to any one of these areas of comment, it fills a great gap in our knowing and serves a most useful purpose.”-- M. Christopher Brown II, author of The Quest to Define Collegiate Desegregation
With contributions by:  Robert Ely, Janice R. Franklin, Jennifer A. Fremlin, Sunita George, Kathy Dunn Jackson, Virginia M. Jones, Annie P. Markham, John Moland Jr., Frank E. Moorer, Elaine M. Smith, Margaret Holler Stephens, Karl E. Westhauser