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Practicing Classics is a memoir about education in America between the end of WWII and the early 21st century. Not only does it consider memory, its truths, and its deceptions, but it also unravels the complexities of class, race, gender, and social positioning in education. Lee Pearcy's story begins with the 1957 desegregation crisis at Little Rock Central High School and its aftermath, describing how growing up in this environment shaped his academic and personal life.
As he came to study Latin and then Classics, Pearcy's education intersected with the student disturbances at Columbia University in 1968 and a feminist revolution that brought significant numbers of women into the classical professoriate. He gives a first-hand account of a scandalous episode in the toxic administrative culture that characterized the classics department at the University of Texas in the 1980s. Against the background of these events, he unfolds his own education as a classicist and his development from apprentice to journeyman to confident teacher of Latin and Greek. Practicing Classics will engage readers who care about American education, classical studies, or the ways that choices, chances, and contingencies shaped one man's life.
Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword by James J. O'Donnell
Chapter 1 TIMBER: Little Rock, 1947-1961
Chapter 2 PIVOTING: Little Rock and Andover, 1962-1965
Chapter 3 THE IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY: Little Rock and New York, 1965-1968
Chapter 4 LEARNING THE CRAFT: New York, 1968-1971
Chapter 5 APPRENTICE: New York and Bryn Mawr, 1970-1973
Chapter 6 JOURNEYMAN: Northfield, 1973-1977
Chapter 7 THE UNWORTHINESS OF THE MINISTERS: Austin, Oxford, and Austin, 1977-1985
Chapter 8 THE SHAPE OF A NICHE: The Episcopal Academy, 1985-2013
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