{"product_id":"slavery-segregation-and-the-second-founding-of-rice-university-hardcover","title":"Slavery, Segregation, and the Second Founding of Rice University - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eW. Caleb McDaniel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAlexander X. Byrd\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRuth J. Simmons\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the first quarter of the twenty-first century, more than one hundred institutions of higher education in the United States launched projects to study and share their histories concerning slavery, segregation, and racial injustice. \u003ci\u003eSlavery, Segregation, and the Second Founding of Rice University\u003c\/i\u003e joins these wider efforts. Authored by award-winning historians Alexander X. Byrd and W. Caleb McDaniel, the book engages questions specific to Rice's history as the last major private research university in the country to begin desegregation. Although Rice did not open its doors for classes until 1912, it was connected to the history of slavery through the life of its first founder and namesake, William Marsh Rice, whose fortune was deeply intertwined with the enslavement of Black people. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eByrd and McDaniel place the history of one of the nation's most renowned universities within a longer and larger context, showing that desegregation required changes to Rice so fundamental that they amounted to a \"second founding\" of the school. Following the story from slavery through segregation to the second founding, they highlight pivotal points of intersection between the history of Black Houston and the history of Rice University, revealing the seldom acknowledged roles of Black students, Black communities, and HBCUs in creating change at and around Rice. Their study challenges readers to consider anew who counts as a university's founder--a question relevant to ongoing discussions about statues, naming, and the history of higher education. They also reveal what higher education institutions do at their best: create new knowledge and forge solutions to trenchant social problems, thus providing guidance for those committed to doing the valuable work of the \"second founding\" at colleges and universities today.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlexander X. Byrd\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of history and Vice Provost at Rice University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eCaptives and Voyagers: Black Migrants across the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World, \u003c\/i\u003e which won the Wesley-Logan Prize. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eW. Caleb McDaniel\u003c\/b\u003e is the Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of the Humanities and professor of history at Rice University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eSweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America, \u003c\/i\u003e which won the Pulitzer Prize in history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e(FOREWORD AUTHOR) Ruth J. Simmons\u003c\/b\u003e, who grew up in Houston, is a former president of Smith College and Brown University, where she established the University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e Simmons was most recently president of Prairie View A\u0026amp;M University.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 424\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.36 x 9.34 x 6.34 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 22, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53065219080525,"sku":"9780807184424","price":53.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/lhcKN5xLxv9780807184424.webp?v=1766616927","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/slavery-segregation-and-the-second-founding-of-rice-university-hardcover","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}