Black campus life : : the worlds Black students make at a historically white institution / / Antar A. Tichavakunda.
Ethnography of Black engineering majors navigating campus life at a historically White university.
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Superior document: | SUNY Series, Critical Race Studies in Education |
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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.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 pages) |
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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.