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

• Superior document: SUNY Series, Critical Race Studies in Education
• VerfasserIn: Tichavakunda, Antar A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Albany : : State University of New York Press,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: SUNY series, critical race studies in education.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 pages)

Ethnography of Black engineering majors navigating campus life at a historically White university.

Table of 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 Community -- The Black Engineering Community -- The Engineering School Community -- The Mainstream WSU Community -- The Black Engineering 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 -- The Black Engineering Community -- The Black Community -- The Engineering School Community -- The Mainstream WSU Community -- The Engineering School Community -- 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 -- The Black Community -- The Mainstream WSU 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 Mainstream WSU Community -- The Black Engineering Community. -- The Engineering School 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.