Support systems and services for diverse populations considering the intersection of race, gender, and the needs of black female undergraduates /

• Other Authors: Chambers, Crystal Renée
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2011.
• Series: Diversity in higher education ; v. 8.
• Subjects: Education > Multicultural Education.; Education > Students & Student Life.; Education: care & counselling of students.; African American women > Education (Higher)

More than identity politics, intersectionality regards the inability of institutional structures to remedy discrimination because of the intersection between social dynamics which are often discretely conceived (Crenshaw & Dill, 2009). For a set of Black women workers in the manufacturing contex...

Table of Contents:

• Does student engagement = positive outcomes for African American women college students? : a cursory analysis of NSSE 2009-2010 data / Crystal Renée Chambers, Michael C. Poock
• Working against the odds : the undergraduate support needs of African American women / Sean Robinson, Veronica Franklin
• Can I succeed? : challenges African-American women face in technology-driven college classrooms / Liliana Mina
• Buried treasure : community cultural wealth among black American female students / Shaunna Payne Gold
• Becoming grounded and focused : African-American women's perspectives on church, spirituality, religion, and college life / Saran Donahoo
• Beating the odds : how five non-traditional black female students succeeded at an Ivy-League institution / Patricia C. Williams
• "Bein' alive & bein' a woman & bein' colored is a metaphysical dilemma" : black female social integration at a predominantly white institution / Sandra Miles, Tamara Bertrand Jones, Kristal Moore Clemons, Patricia Golay
• Black females in higher education at HBCUs : the paradox of success / Helen Bond
• The emergence of women's centers at HBCUs : centers of influence and the confluence of black feminist epistemology and liberal education / Vickie L. Suggs, Shayla Mitchell
• African American women in community colleges : overcoming challenges and seizing opportunities / Amanda A. Turner
• Illuminating the experiences of African-American female community college students in developmental education / Christine Johnson McPhail.