This book is a core text for D🌏T, both for its subject matter (the experimental, interdisciplinary pedagogical experient known as Black Mountain College, which made a major impact upon American arts and letters in the post-war period), as well as for the way it is written (a self-reflexive, self-implicating structural approach that begins with straight history, but evolves into an unusual melange of memoir, historical revisionism, and radical pedagogical journal). Now over 50 years, the book’s approach to community and learning is still as relevant today as when it was first published.
Duberman, Martin. Black Mountain: An Exploration in Community. New York: Dutton, 1972.