Too much to ask : Black women in the era of integration /

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In the 1960s, increasing numbers of African American students entered predominantly white colleges and universities in northern and western USA. This work focuses on the women of this pioneering generation, examining their educational strategies and experiences.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Higginbotham, Elizabeth (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [2001]
Series:Gender & American culture.
Subjects:
African American women > Education (Higher) > Longitudinal studies.
African American women > Social conditions > Longitudinal studies.
African American college students > Longitudinal studies.
College integration > United States.
Educational surveys > United States.
Noires américaines > Conditions sociales > Études longitudinales.
Étudiants noirs américains > Études longitudinales.
Déségrégation dans les universités > États-Unis.
EDUCATION > Higher.
African American college students
African American women > Education (Higher)
African American women > Social conditions
College integration
Educational surveys
Höheres Bildungswesen
Längsschnittuntersuchung
Schwarze Frau
Vrouwen.
Studenten.
United States
USA
Longitudinal studies
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The women and the era
  • Family social class background
  • What money can buy : Social class differences in housing and educational options
  • The ties that bind : Socialized for survival
  • Public high schools : surviving or thriving
  • Elite high schools : The cost of advantages
  • Adult-sponsored and child-secured mobility
  • College : Expectations and reality
  • Survival strategies in college
  • Struggling to build a satisfying life in a racist society.

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