Black American female undergraduates on campus successes and challenges /

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Chambers, Crystal Renée, Sharpe, Rhonda V.
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2012.
• Σειρά: Diversity in higher education ; v. 12.
• Θέματα: Education > Multicultural Education.; Education > Higher.; Multicultural education.; Black & Asian studies.; African American women college students.

Since the 1976, increased attention has been paid to the diminishing numbers of Black males in higher education, and rightly so: the total numerical enrollments of Black female undergraduates has outstripped their male counterparts by a factor of nearly 2 to 1. Since intervention, however, the enrol...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface / Crystal Renée Chambers, Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe
• You go girl! : trends in educational attainment of black women / Sacha D. Blalock, Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe
• Analyzing the female advantage in college access among African Americans / Su Jin Jez
• Gender differences in self-actualization / Allan Okech, Crystal Renée Chambers
• Black women's experiences with racial microaggressions in college : making meaning at the crossroads of race and gender / Joanna Lee Williams, Tanya M. Nichols
• A way of making it : black reentry females' success and challenges to undergraduate education / Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz
• The culture of competition : identifying the unique experiences of domestic and international black student-athletes / Noel Harmon, Khalilah Doss, Saran Donahoo
• Sending an SOS : how social support networks contribute to the success of black lesbians at predominantly white institutions / Chutney Walton Guyton, Ferlin McGaskey
• African American high-achieving girls : STEM careers as options / Wanda B. Coneal
• Differential gender outcomes of career exploration sessions for African American undergraduates : an examination of a computing science outreach effort at predominantly white institutions / Jerlando F.L. Jackson, LaVar J. Charleston
• Prepared and progressing : black women in physics / Sharon Fries-Britt, Kimberly M. Holmes
• Hoping for the unexpected : African American women as STEM educators / Wynetta Y. Lee, Janet A. Guyden, P. Gayle Harris Watkins.