Celebrating Hotchclaw

by Ann Allen Shockley

Overview

Hotchclaw is an HBC - an Historically Black College - a survivor among the many small Southern colleges that came into being after slavery to promote higher education for Black students. - in an era of segregation. Although struggling with financial issues, Hotchclaw is ready to celebrate its 100th anniversary! But under the surface of jubilation and pride, there are internal conflicts - professional, psychological and sexual - between the president and faculty. And students are in an uproar over political and campus issues - plus a shocking discovery about one of the school's most admired professors. What a party this turns out to be!

Product Details

BN ID:	2940015899474
Publisher:	A&M Books
Publication date:	10/30/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Ann Allen Shockley is the award-winning author of six books of fiction and non-fiction, including the now classic ground-breaking novel, Loving Her. Originally published by a mainstream publisher in 1974 and reprinted in 1997 by Northeastern University Press, Loving Her has been acclaimed as the first novel by an African American author to have an African American protagonist and to deal explicitly with a interracial lesbian relationship.In addition to her career as a writer, Ann Allen Shockley has been a librarian and archivist at Delaware State University, the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore, and most recently at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she now resides.

Editorial Reviews

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Alioce Walker wrote of Ann Allen Shockley's ground-breaking novel, Lovinig Her, "It is an exploration of a dfaring subject boldly told."

Author of The Color Purple