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Black campus life : the worlds Black students make at a historically white institution / Antar A. Tichavakunda.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Tichavakunda, Antar A., author.
Series:
SUNY series, critical race studies in education.
SUNY Series, Critical Race Studies in Education
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
African American college students.
African Americans--Education (Higher).
African Americans.
Engineering students--United States.
Engineering students.
Discrimination in higher education--United States.
Discrimination in higher education.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (280 pages)
Place of Publication:
Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]
Summary:
Ethnography of Black engineering majors navigating campus life at a historically White university.
Contents:
Intro
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Learning About Campus Life from Black Engineering Majors
Studying Black Campus Life through Social Worlds
Racial Realities on Campus
Examining Two Crises
Project Description
Studying Black Student Life
Thinking with Theories
Using Pierre Bourdieu's Theory of Practice
Critical Race Theory
Making Black Lives Matter in Research
The Organization of Black Campus Life
Chapter 2 Understanding the Past and Present of West Side University
Campus Life and Shifting Campus Color Lines
The History of Caldwell School of Engineering
When WSU Engineers Were White and Asian Men
The Short History of Black People in Engineering at WSU
Diversity and Caldwell
Introducing Four Social Worlds and Four Students
The Black WSU Social World
The Black Engineering Social World
The Engineering School Social World
The Mainstream WSU Social World
The Black Community
Chapter 3 The Time and Space to Engage in the Black Community
Black Places on Campus
The Black Community and a Sense of Place
The Stoop
Engaging in the Black Community
Tensions between Collective and Individual Interests
The Midnight Brunch
The Black Community Social World: In Summary
Centering Black Campus Communities
Chapter 4 Johnson's Story
The Black Engineering Community
The Engineering School Community
The Mainstream WSU Community
Chapter 5 Examining NSBE: How Black Engineers Do It for the Culture
The NSBE Community at a Glance
NSBE Structure
Tension between the Engagement and Burdens of Being an NSBE Member
The Potential Burdens
Tension between Strategic Essentialism and Antiessentialism
Tension between a Family Focus and an Engineering Career Focus
Brown Sugar.
The Black Engineering Social World: In Summary
Chapter 6 Jasmine's Story
Chapter 7 Organizational Involvement: Diversity Dilution and Antiblackness
Caldwell at a Glance
Different Majors, Different Experiences
The Caldwell Racial Climate
The Tension between Diversity and Invisibility
Experiencing Hypervisibility
Experiencing Institutional Invisibility
The Multicultural Engineering Office and Diversity Dilution
The Tension between Membership in NSBE and Other Engineering Organizations
Identity‑based Engineering Organizations
NSBE and SWE
NSBE and SHPE
Engineering Societies
Caldwell Organizational Involvement: In Summary
Chapter 8 Informal Relationships: The (Im)Possibility of Peer Collaboration
The Tension between Group Work and Being the Only One
The Importance of Groups
Forming Study Groups and Working Alone
Cheating and Collaboration in Caldwell
Tension between Expecting and Experiencing Racism
Study Days
The Caldwell Social World: In Summary
The Boundary of Antiblackness
Chapter 9 Nina's Story
The Engineering School and Black Engineering Community
Chapter 10 Negotiating Racism: Is Mainstream Campus Life for White Students?
Tension between WSU Life and Caldwell Responsibilities
Tensions of Doing Diversity and Negotiating Racism
Fraternity Row
Diverse Friendships and Diverging Viewpoints
An Expectation of Racism
Not in a Place to Experience Racism
The WSU Involvement Fair
The Mainstream Campus Community: In Summary
Chapter 11 Martin's Story
The Black Engineering Community.
Chapter 12 Sociology and the Blues of Campus Life
Social Worlds, Boundaries, and Tensions
Linked Fate
Labor
Antiblackness
Black Engineering Students and Engineering Career Capital
Black Social Worlds and Achievement
The Problem of Student Collaboration
A Note on Studying Race on Campus
Implications for Practice
Conclusion
Appendix
Notes on Theory and Methods
Why Social Worlds?
Why CRT and Bourdieu?
Are Social Worlds Fields?
Data Collection Methods
Access
Participant Selection
Interviews and Observation
My Identity and Positionality
Data Representation
Quotations
Talking About Racism
Limitations
Notes
References
Index.
Notes:
This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
9781438485928
1438485921
OCLC:
1286427269

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