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Author Miller, Jonson, author.

Title Engineering manhood : race and the antebellum Virginia Military Institute / Jonson Miller
Published [Amherst, Massachusetts] : Lever Press, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations, map, portraits
Contents VMI : challenging the Northern story of antebellum engineering -- Education and white manhood in the struggle for political power -- Creating the "West Point of the South" -- Engineering knowledge and the struggle for authority in higher education -- Engineering as a profession of service to the progress of Virginia -- The necessary white manhood of engineering -- Secession : realigning identity and power
Summary It is not an accident that American engineering is so disproportionately male and white; it took and takes work to create and sustain this situation. Engineering Manhood: Race and the Antebellum Virginia Military Institute examines the process by which engineers of the antebellum Virginia Military Institute cultivated whiteness, manhood, and other intersecting identities as essential to an engineering professional identity. VMI opened in 1839 to provide one of the earliest and most thorough engineering educations available in antebellum America. The officers of the school saw engineering work as intimately linked to being a particular type of person, one that excluded women or black men. This particular white manhood they crafted drew upon a growing middle-class culture. These precedents impacted engineering education broadly in this country and we continue to see their legacy today
Analysis engineering education
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-277)
Notes Sponsored by Lever Press
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Online resource, viewed April 30, 2021
Subject Virginia Military Institute -- History -- 19th century
Virginia Military Institute -- Students -- History -- 19th century
SUBJECT Virginia Military Institute fast
Subject Racism in higher education -- Virginia -- Lexington -- History -- 19th century
Sexism in higher education -- Virginia -- Lexington -- History -- 19th century
Engineering -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Virginia -- Lexington
Men, White -- Education (Higher) -- Social aspects -- Virginia -- Lexington
HISTORY -- General.
Engineering -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Racism in higher education
Sexism in higher education
Students
Virginia -- Lexington
Genre/Form Electronic books
technical reports.
History
Technical reports.
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Author Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.
ISBN 9781643150185
1643150189