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Taming the river : negotiating the academic, financial, and social currents in selective colleges and universities / Camille Z. Charles ... [and others] ; with assistance from Gniesha Dinwiddie, Brooke Cunningham.
LIBRA LC208.8 .T36 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- College students--United States--Social conditions.
- College students.
- Minorities--Education (Higher)--United States.
- Minorities.
- Minorities--Education (Higher).
- Social conditions.
- United States.
- Academic achievement--United States.
- Academic achievement.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- Entering the current
- Staying afloat academically
- Staying afloat socially
- Staying afloat financially
- Battling social undercurrents
- The hidden rocks of segregation
- The shoals of stereotypes
- The wake from affirmative action
- College at midstream.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-294) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691139647
- 0691139644
- OCLC:
- 236082572
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