Joe R. Feagin, Hernan Vera, Nikitah Imani

The Agony of Education

Black Students at a White University

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Produktbeschreibung

The Agony of Education is about the life experience of African American students attending a historically white university. Based on seventy-seven interviews conducted with black students and parents concerning their experiences with one state university, as well as published and unpublished studies of the black experience at state universities at large, this study captures the painful choices and agonizing dilemmas at the heart of the decisions African Americans must make about higher education.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 312g
• ISBN-13: 9780415915120
• ISBN-10: 0415915120
• Artikelnr.: 22422144

Autorenporträt

Sociology at the University of Florida. Hernán Vera is Professor of Sociology at the University of Florida. Feagin and Vera are the coauthors of White Racism.IkitahO. Imani is Assistant Professor of Sociology at James Madison University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Black Students at Predominately White College and Universities: The
Rhetoric and the Reality; 2. Educational Choices and a University's
Reputation: The Importance of Collective Morality; 3. Confronting White
Students: The Whiteness of University Spaces; 4. Contending with White
Instructors: You Can Feel When Someone Wants You Somewhere; 5.
Administrative Barriers to Student Progress: Blocked at Each Turn; 6.
Issues of Recruitment and Retention: If They Do Anything, It's to Encourage
You to Leave; 7. Racism in Higher Education: The Need for Change