Invisible Hawkeyes by Lena M Hill
Between the 1930s and 1960s, the University of Iowa sought to assert its modernity, cosmopolitanism, and progressivism through an increased emphasis on the fine and performing arts and athletics. This enhancement coincided with a period when an increasing number of African American students arrived at the university, from both within and outside of the state, seeking to take advantage of its relatively liberal racial relations and rising artistic prestige. The presence of accomplished African American students performing in musical concerts, participating in visual art exhibitions, acting on stage, publishing literature, and competing on sports fields forced white students, instructors, and administrators to confront their undeniable intellect and talent. Unlike the work completed in traditional academic units, these students contributions to the university community were highly visible and burst beyond the walls of their individual units and primary spheres of experience to reach a much larger audience on campus and in the city and nation beyond the university s boundaries.?
By examining the quieter collisions between Iowa s polite midwestern progressivism and African American students determined ambition, Invisible Hawkeyes focuses attention on both local stories and their national implications. By looking at the University of Iowa and a smaller midwestern college town like Iowa City, this collection reveals how fraught moments of interracial collaboration, meritocratic advancement, and institutional insensitivity deepen our understanding of America s painful conversion into a diverse republic committed to racial equality.
SUBJECTS COVERED
Edison Holmes Anderson, George Overall Caldwell, Elizabeth Catlett, Fanny Ellison, Oscar Anderson Fuller, Michael Harper, James Alan McPherson, Herbert Franklin Mells, Herbert Nipson, Thomas Pawley, William Oscar Smith, Mitchell Southall, Margaret Walker
CONTRIBUTORS
Dora Martin Berry, Richard M. Breaux, Kathleen A. Edwards, Lois Eichaker, Brian Hallstoos, Lena M. Hill, Michael D. Hill, Dianna Penny, Donald W. Tucker, Ted Wheeler
"A provocative balance of both local and national cultural history, Invisible Hawkeyes tells the stories of the University of Iowa's integration in the period of 1930-1960The blend of first-person testimonial and more formal, scholarly chapters produces a highly engaging, stirring, and informative book that reveals both the glories and the failures of the integration movement in American universities at mid-century."--Marc Conner, author, The New Territory: Ralph Ellison and the Twenty-First Century
"Lucidly written and intelligently conceived, Invisible Hawkeyes is a timely and important volume that introduces readers to the position held by the University of Iowa, a large, northern land grant university, in the drama of American racial transformation during the middle of the twentieth century. This vital and important work, recovering the lives of early black students at the university, makes even larger claims about the prominence of the Midwest in national conversations about race and African American art and artistic styles."--Lawrence Jackson, author, The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960
"Lucidly written and intelligently conceived, Invisible Hawkeyes is a timely and important volume that introduces readers to the position held by the University of Iowa, a large, northern land grant university, in the drama of American racial transformation during the middle of the twentieth century. This vital and important work, recovering the lives of early black students at the university, makes even larger claims about the prominence of the Midwest in national conversations about race and African American art and artistic styles."--Lawrence Jackson, author, The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960
Lena M. Hill is an associate professor of English and African American studies at the University of Iowa. She is the author of Visualizing Blackness and the Creation of African American Literary Tradition and is the coauthor of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man A Reference Guide. Michael D. Hill is an associate professor of English and African American studies at the University of Iowa. He is the author of The Ethics of Swagger: Prizewinning African American Novels, 1977-1993 and is the coauthor of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man A Reference Guide. They both live in Iowa City, Iowa.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781609384418 |
| ISBN 10 | 1609384415 |
| Title | Invisible Hawkeyes |
| Author | Lena M Hill |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Iowa Press |
| Year published | 2016-10-30 |
| Number of pages | 228 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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