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  • Wuthnow, Robert  (2)
  • Doermann, Humphrey  (1)
  • Princeton, N.J : Princeton University Press  (3)
  • USA  (3)
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    Stand and prosper : private Black colleges and their students (2001)
    Princeton, N.J : Princeton University Press
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    ISBN: 9781400843176 , 1400843170
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xxix, 335 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Drewry, Henry N., 1924- Stand and prosper
    DDC: 378.7308996073
    Keywords: African American universities and colleges History ; Private universities and colleges History ; United States ; United States ; African American universities and colleges History ; Private universities and colleges History ; EDUCATION ; Higher ; African American universities and colleges ; Private universities and colleges ; College ; Geschichte ; Private Hochschule ; Schwarze ; History ; United States ; USA ; USA ; Schwarze ; Electronic books History
    Abstract: Stand and Prosper is the first authoritative history in decades of black colleges and universities in America. It tells the story of educational institutions that offered, and continue to offer, African Americans a unique opportunity to transcend the legacy of slavery while also bearing its burden. Henry Drewry and Humphrey Doermann present an up-to-date and comprehensive assessment of their past, present, and possible future. Black colleges fully got off the ground only after the Civil War--more than two centuries after higher education formally began in British North America. Despite horrendous obstacles, they survived and even proliferated until well past the mid-twentieth century. As the authors show, however, the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education brought them to a crucial juncture. While validating the rights of blacks to pursue opportunities outside racial and class lines, it drew the future of these institutions into doubt. By the mid-1970s black colleges competed with other colleges for black students--a welcome expansion of choices for African-American youth but a huge recruitment challenge for black colleges. The book gradually narrows its focus from a general history to a look at the development of forty-five private black colleges in recent decades. It describes their varied responses to the changes of the last half-century and documents their influence in the development of the black middle class. The authors underscore the vital importance of government in supporting these institutions, from the Freedman's Bureau during Reconstruction to federal aid in our own time. Stand and Prosper offers a fascinating portrait of the distinctive place black colleges and universities have occupied in American history as crucibles of black culture, and of the formidable obstacles they must surmount if they are to continue fulfilling this important role
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Poor Richard's principle : recovering the American dream through the moral dimension of work, business, and money (1996)
    Princeton, N.J : Princeton University Press
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    ISBN: 1400813921 , 9781400813926 , 9781400822201 , 1400822203
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xii, 429 pages)
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Beem, Christopher Poor Richard's Principle: Recovering the American Dream Through the Moral Dimension of Work, Business, and Money. Robert Wuthnow 1999
    DDC: 306.0973
    Keywords: Work Moral and ethical aspects ; United States ; Money Moral and ethical aspects ; United States ; Business ethics United States ; Social values United States ; Work and family United States ; Travail Aspect moral ; États-Unis ; Monnaie Aspect moral ; États-Unis ; Morale des affaires États-Unis ; Valeurs sociales États-Unis ; Travail et famille États-Unis ; Business ethics ; Money Moral and ethical aspects ; Social values ; Work Moral and ethical aspects ; Business ethics ; Money ; Moral and ethical aspects ; Social values ; Work ; Moral and ethical aspects ; United States ; United States Moral conditions ; États-Unis Conditions morales ; United States ; USA ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The American Dream is in serious danger, according to Robert Wuthnow - not because of economic conditions, but because its moral underpinnings have been forgotten. In the past this vision was not simply a formula for success, but a moral perspective that framed our thinking about work and money in terms of broader commitments to family, community, and humanitarian values. Nowadays, we are working harder than ever, and yet many of us feel that we are not realizing our higher aspirations as individuals or as a people. Here Wuthnow examines the struggles in which American families are now engaged as they try to balance work and family, confront the pressures of consumerism, and find meaning in their careers. He suggests that we can find economic instruction and inspiration in the nation's past - in such figures as Benjamin Franklin, for instance, who was at once the prudent Poor Richard, the engaged public person, and the enthusiastic lover of life
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-426) and index. - Print version record
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    The restructuring of American religion : society and faith since World War II (1988)
    Princeton, N.J : Princeton University Press
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    ISBN: 9780691224213 , 0691224218
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 374 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in church and state
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Wuthnow, Robert The Restructuring of American Religion
    DDC: 306/.6/0973
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    BB 1840
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    BO 6935
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    MG 70270
    Keywords: University of South Alabama ; Church and state ; Church and state ; Religion ; Gesellschaft ; Religion ; Kerk en maatschappij ; United States Religion 1945- ; United States ; USA ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Foreword --Preface --CHAPTER 1:Thequestion of restructuring --CHAPTER 2:Heritage and vision --CHAPTER 3:Avision of promise and peril --CHAPTER 4:Conscience and conviction in public life --CHAPTER 5:Thedeclining significance of denominationalism --CHAPTER 6:Thegrowth of special purpose groups --CHAPTER 7:Thegreat divide: toward religious realignment --CHAPTER 8:Mobilization on the right --CHAPTER 9:Fueling the tensions --CHAPTER 10:Civil religion: two cheers for America --CHAPTER 11:From civil religion to technological legitimacy --CHAPTER 12:Abroader context: politics and faith --Notes --Selected bibliography --Index.
    Abstract: A study of developments in modern American religion examines the interaction between religion and politics that has occurred in the years since World War II, the polarization of religious dogma and the rise of special interest groups
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-368) and index
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