Black campus life : : the worlds Black students make at a historically white institution /

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

Show other versions (2)

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

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
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)
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
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.

Similar Items