Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Boyd, Melba Joyce

Titel

The Legacy of Darwin T. Turner and the Struggle for African American Studies

Ist Teil von

• The Black scholar, 2011-12, Vol.41 (4), p.11-16

Ort / Verlag

San Francisco: Taylor & Francis Group LLC

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Quelle

Taylor & Francis

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• On Feb 11, 1991, the New York Times published an obituary, "Darwin Turner, 59, A Professor of English," which abbreviated his life into five paragraphs, after explaining that he had taught at the University of Iowa for two decades and that "He died of a heart attack, the university said." "The university said" is possibly the key to understanding Darwin's life in this otherwise anemic write up because Darwin's life was consumed, for better or for worse, by the university. Here, Boyd recalls the events on university campuses in 1968 in order to recount Turners mammoth contributions to the academy.