The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes

Diverse college and university campuses with origins before Emancipation embody a potent paradox. Architecturally and spatially, they present tangible models of idealized utopian spaces, earthly apparitions of the promise of Heaven. Yet these utopian imagined communities rest, at times uneasily, upo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mark Auslander
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Emory Center for Digital Scholarship 2010-05-01
Series:Southern Spaces
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Online Access:https://southernspaces.org/node/42655