White-run black colleges simultaneously assimilated and challenged racism and sexism

Evidence

The northern Baptists envisioned their colleges as assimilating apparatuses that would render the black elite “thoroughly homogeneous” with white middle-class culture. Herein lay the dialectic between the conservative and progressive implications of their educational philosophy. When they compared their southern schools to the University of Chicago or to Vassar and Wellesley, as they often did, they signaled a progressive challenge to both racism and sexism and thereby encouraged their male and female students to take pride in their intellectual capabilities. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 157

Categorization

• XREF: The conservative-progressive dialectic prefigures the double-edged character of the politics of respectability the reader is tracking. — connects to: Denominational white control pushed college-educated blacks toward separatism — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 283; Black women experienced race through gender and gender through race simultaneously — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 559; Black women experienced sexist oppression distinct from racism — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 47 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Black women experienced race through gender and gender through race simultaneously #corroborates (0.82) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 559
• Black congregations funded white-run colleges yet still lost control over where support went #exemplifies (0.81) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 291
• Denominational white control pushed college-educated blacks toward separatism #expands (0.78) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 283
• Denied inclusion within white institutions deepened black Baptist separatism #exemplifies (0.76) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 247
• Black women experienced sexist oppression distinct from racism #qualifies (0.74) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 47
• Black liberation requires fighting sexism as much as racism #expands (0.73) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 347