Postracial Already? Desegregation and Interest Divergence in a Small Liberal Arts College, 1990–2010

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Abstract

This study is a narrative from the first Black professor at Spruce Mountain College and how within a 20 year span, his hiring marked the beginning of a concerted effort of the college to desegregate which was bookended with administrative decisions to diffuse multicultural center personnel, resources, and programming. The present narrative is a cautionary tale of post-racial idealism supplanting racial realism, the awareness of and attention to matters of race on campus, and the impact on the quality of support and programming for students of color.

Authors

• Crystal Renee Chambers, East Carolina University

• Adriel Adon Hilton

• Kevin McClain, University of New Orleans