Black Students' Perceptions: The Complexity of Persistence to Graduation at an American University (Counterpoints #199) (Paperback)

Black Students' Perceptions: The Complexity of Persistence to Graduation at an American University (Counterpoints #199) By Shirley R. Steinberg (Editor), Joe L. Kincheloe (Editor), R. Deborah Davis Cover Image

Black Students' Perceptions: The Complexity of Persistence to Graduation at an American University (Counterpoints #199) (Paperback)

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This is book number 199 in the Counterpoints series.

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.
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.
Product Details ISBN: 9780820455396
ISBN-10: 0820455393
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Publication Date: June 1st, 2007
Pages: 152
Language: English
Series: Counterpoints