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Title: Black Students’ Perceptions

Black Students’ Perceptions

The Complexity of Persistence to Graduation at an American University

by R. Deborah Davis (Author)
©2007 Textbook XI, 152 Pages
Education
Series: Counterpoints, Volume 199

Summary

This book looks at the socialization process and persistence to graduation from the perspectives of black students at American universities today. The students’ perceptions discussed include what it meant to them to have a pre-college experience, the importance of expectations, the pain caused by racism, and how they were able to find «safe spaces» in what many considered a «hostile environment». Black Students’ Perceptions documents and addresses what it means to be a black person getting an education in a predominantly white university.

Details

Pages
XI, 152
Year
2007
ISBN (Softcover)
9780820455396
Language
English
Keywords
Gesellschaft und Kultur Pädagogik Black Studies Racism America Sonderpädagogik
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2004, 2007. XI, 152 pp., 9 fig., 2 tables

Biographical notes

R. Deborah Davis (Author)

The Author: R. Deborah Davis is Assistant Professor in the curriculum and instruction department at the State University of New York at Oswego. Formerly she was Director of the Syracuse University Violence Prevention Project, a research project funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention through the Hamilton Fish National Institute on School and Community Violence. Dr. Davis earned her B.A. in business administration from Columbia College-Missouri, her M.P.A. from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, and her Ph.D. in higher education administration at Syracuse University.

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