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Making it on broken promises : leading African American male scholars confront the culture of higher education / edited by Lee Jones ; foreword by Cornel West.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American men--Education (Higher).
- African American men.
- African American men--Social conditions.
- African American college students.
- College integration--United States.
- College integration.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 204 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Sterling, Va. : Stylus, 2002.
- Summary:
- Sixteen of America's leading scholars offer an uncompromising critique of the academy from their perspective as African American men.
- Contents:
- A message from our elders / Lee Jones
- The data speak : no rest for the weary / William B. Harvey
- The psychological dilemma of African American academicians / Na'im Akbar
- One by one, or one : Africans and the academy / Asa G. Hilliard III
- Examining the pitfalls facing African American males / Cyrus Marcellus Ellis
- Equity and excellence : is there room for African American Ph.D.'s? / Charles Rankin
- Come so far, but so far to go : interview with Dr. Joseph White / Joseph White and Kamau Siwatu
- Understanding the socialization process / William H. Watkins
- Culture, style, and cognition : expanding the boundaries of the learning paradigm for African American learners in the community college / Irving Pressley McPhail
- The role of Black colleges in educating African American men : an interview with Nathan McCall / Nathan McCall and Tony Anderson
- Afrocentricity and the African American male in college / Molefi Kete Asante
- Affective computing : the reverse digital divide / Clarence "Skip" Ellis
- Visualizing the framework for access and success : democracy demands that we care / Frank W. Hale, Jr.
- From Na Ezaleli to the Jegnoch : the force of the African family for Black men in higher education / Wade W. Nobles (Nana Kwaku Berko I aka Ifagbemi Sangodare)
- The prerequisites for academic leadership / Charlie Nelms.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1579220509
- OCLC:
- 49964079
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