

An edition of Too Much to Ask (2000)
Black women in the era of integration
By Elizabeth Higginbotham
Publish Date
2001
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Language
eng
Pages
304
Description:
In the 1960s increasing numbers of African American students entered predominantly white colleges and universities in the northern and western United States. This book focuses on the women of this pioneering generation, examining their educational stragtegies and experiences and exploring how social class, family upbringing, and expectations, their own and others', prepared them to achieve in an often hostile setting.
subjects: African American college students, African American women, College integration, Education (Higher), Educational surveys, Longitudinal studies, Social conditions, Studenten, Längsschnittuntersuchung, Vrouwen, Höheres Bildungswesen, Negers, Weibliche Schwarze, Women, united states, history, School integration, African americans, education, Noires américaines, Études longitudinales, Conditions sociales, Étudiants noirs américains, Déségrégation dans les universités, EDUCATION, Higher, Schwarze Frau
Places: United States