Black Women College Students

Author : Felecia Commodore
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317216385
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Women College Students written by Felecia Commodore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest book in the Key Issues on Diverse College Students series explores the state of Black women students in higher education. Delineating key issues, proposing an original student success model, and describing what institutions can do to better support this group, this important book provides a succinct but comprehensive exploration of this underrepresented and often neglected population on college campuses. Full of practical recommendations for working across academic and student affairs, this is a useful guide for administrators, faculty, and practitioners interested in creating pathways for Black female college student success. Whether this book is read cover to cover or used as a resource manual, the pages contain critical insights that should be taken into serious consideration wherever Black women college students are concerned.

Author : Stephanie Y. Evans
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813063051
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954 written by Stephanie Y. Evans and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evans chronicles the stories of African American women who struggled for and won access to formal education, beginning in 1850, when Lucy Stanton, a student at Oberlin College, earned the first college diploma conferred on an African American woman. In the century between the Civil War and the civil rights movement, a critical increase in black women's educational attainment mirrored unprecedented national growth in American education. Evans reveals how black women demanded space as students and asserted their voices as educators--despite such barriers as violence, discrimination, and oppressive campus policies--contributing in significant ways to higher education in the United States. She argues that their experiences, ideas, and practices can inspire contemporary educators to create an intellectual democracy in which all people have a voice. Among those Evans profiles are Anna Julia Cooper, who was born enslaved yet ultimately earned a doctoral degree from the Sorbonne, and Mary McLeod Bethune, founder of Bethune-Cookman College. Exposing the hypocrisy in American assertions of democracy and discrediting European notions of intellectual superiority, Cooper argued that all human beings had a right to grow. Bethune believed that education is the right of all citizens in a democracy. Both women's philosophies raised questions of how human and civil rights are intertwined with educational access, scholarly research, pedagogy, and community service. This first complete educational and intellectual history of black women carefully traces quantitative research, explores black women's collegiate memories, and identifies significant geographic patterns in America's institutional development. Evans reveals historic perspectives, patterns, and philosophies in academia that will be an important reference for scholars of gender, race, and education.

Author : Terrell L. Strayhorn
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000980146
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolving Challenges of Black College Students written by Terrell L. Strayhorn and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting new empirical evidence and employing fresh theoretical perspectives, this book sheds new light on the challenges that Black Students face from the time they apply to college through their lives on campus.The contributors make the case that the new generation of Black students differ in attitudes and backgrounds from earlier generations, and demonstrate the importance of understanding the diversity of Black identity.Successive chapters address the nature and importance of Black spirituality for reducing isolation and race-related stress, and as a source of meaning making; students’ college selection and decision process and the expectations it fosters; first-generation Black women’s motivations for attending college; the social-psychological determinants of academic achievement, and how resiliency can be developed and nurtured; institutional climate and the role of cultural centers; as well as identity development; and mentoring. The book includes a new research study of African American male undergraduates who identify as gay or bisexual; discusses the impact of student-to-student interactions in intellectual development and leadership building; describes the successful strategies used by historically Black institutions with at-risk men; considers the role of parents in Black male students’ lives, and the applicability of the “millennial” label to the new cohort of African American students.The book offers new insights and concrete recommendations for policies and practices to provide the social and academic support for African American students to persist and fully benefit from their collegiate experience. It will be of value to student affairs personnel and faculty; constitutes a textbook for courses on student populations and their development; and provides a springboard for future research.

Author : Lori D. Patton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781138819474
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Black Women and College Success written by Lori D. Patton and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Perspectives on Black Women and College Success presents theoretically grounded scholarship and research that explores the experiences of black undergraduate women in college from a wide range of perspectives.

Author : Cerri A. Banks
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433102110
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Women Undergraduates, Cultural Capital, and College Success written by Cerri A. Banks and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book documents the academic and social success of Black women undergraduates as they negotiate dominant educational and social discourses about their schooling lives. Starting with the premise that Black women undergraduates are not a homogenous group and that they are being successful in college in greater numbers than Black men, this book examines the ways they navigate being traditionally underprepared academically for college, the discourse of «acting white», and oppressive classroom settings and practices. This work expands the theoretical concept of cultural capital by identifying the abundant and varied forms of cultural capital that Black women undergraduates provide, develop, and utilize as they make their way through college. The discussion of their raced, classed, and gendered experiences challenges the academy to make use of this understanding in its work towards educational equity. This movement has wide-reaching implications for ethos, policy, and practice in higher education.

Author : Sekile M. Nzinga
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 1421438763
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lean Semesters written by Sekile M. Nzinga and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informed by the work of scholars and labor activists who have interrogated the various forms of inequity produced and reproduced by institutions of higher education under neoliberalism, Lean Semesters serves as a timely and accessible call to action.

Author : Rachelle Winkle-Wagner
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421402939
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unchosen Me written by Rachelle Winkle-Wagner and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Racial and gender inequities persist among college students, despite ongoing efforts to combat them. Students of color face alienation, stereotyping, low expectations, and lingering racism even as they actively engage in the academic and social worlds of college life. The Unchosen Me examines the experiences of African American collegiate women and the identity-related pressures they encounter both on and off campus. Rachelle Winkle-Wagner finds that the predominantly white college environment often denies African American students the chance to determine their own sense of self. Even the very programs and policies developed to promote racial equality may effectively impose “unchosen” identities on underrepresented students. She offers clear evidence of this interactive process, showing how race, gender, and identity are created through interactions among one’s self, others, and society. At the heart of this book are the voices of women who struggle to define and maintain their identities during college. In a unique series of focus groups called “sister circles,” these women could speak freely and openly about the pressures and tensions they faced in school. The Unchosen Me is a rich examination of the underrepresented student experience, offering a new approach to studying identity, race, and gender in higher education.

Author : Elizabeth L. Ihle
Publisher : Facsimiles-Garl
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Women in Higher Education written by Elizabeth L. Ihle and published by Facsimiles-Garl. This book was released on 1992 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mavis Christine Campbell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Women of Amherst College written by Mavis Christine Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Crystal R. Chambers
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780525028
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Female Undergraduates on Campus written by Crystal R. Chambers and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-05 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intends to identify both successes and challenges faced by Black female students accessing and matriculating through institutions of higher education. This volume is aimed toward garnering an understanding of the educational trajectories and experiences of Black females, independent of and in comparison to their peers.