Black Students' Perceptions: The Complexity of Persistence to Graduation at an American University

by R. Deborah Davis

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780820455396
Publisher:	Peter Lang Publishing Inc.
Publication date:	06/01/2007
Series:	Counterpoints Series: Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education , #199
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	8.80(w) x 6.00(h) x 0.40(d)

About the 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.

Table of Contents

	List of Figures and Tables	ix
	Acknowledgments	xi
1.	Introduction	1
2.	Social Context in the Early 1990s	19
3.	Student Development/Black Student Development	29
4.	The Campus As the Black Students See It	47
5.	Students' Perceptions of Race	73
6.	Talk About Being Visible and Invisible	87
7.	A Different Perception of the Black Students' Experience	109
8.	Interpretations	121
	References	137
	Index	147