A fictional book titled Ebony & Ivy was featured in the film “ Dear White People” (2014). Professor Wilder’s book inspired the Grammy-winning artist Esperanza Spalding’s song, “Ebony and Ivy,” “ Emily’s D+Evolution” (2016). The 2017 premiere of the ABC comedy “black- ish” included a theatrical salute to the enslaved people who built the nation, including its universities. The HBO comedy “VEEP” closed its sixth season with Selina Myer’s (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) plans for her presidential library at Yale University derailing upon reports that the site had once been the campus slave quarters. Since its publication, scores of colleges and universities have publicly acknowledged their historical ties to slavery and the slave trade, and institutions across the Atlantic have committed to researching and publishing their connections to the slave economy. He is the author of Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities (Bloomsbury, 2013), which Kirkus Reviews named one of the best nonfiction books of the year and which won multiple book awards. Craig Steven Wilder is a historian of American institutions and ideas.
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