Black and Smart

How Black High-Achieving Women Experience College
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-9788-3237-4
Verlag: Rutgers University Press

Buch, Englisch, 174 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 126 mm x 202 mm, Gewicht: 227 g

Reihe: The American Campus

Even academically talented students face challenges in college. For high-achieving Black women, their racial, gender, and academic identities intensify those issues. Inside the classroom, they are spotlighted and feel forced to be representatives for their identity groups. In campus life, they are isolated and face microaggressions from peers. Using intersectionality as a theoretical framework, Davis addresses the significance of the various identities of high-achieving Black women in college individually and collectively, revealing the ways institutional oppression functions at historically white institutions and in social interactions on and off campus. Based on interviews with collegiate Black women in honors communities, Black and Smart analyzes the experiences of academically talented Black undergraduate women navigating their social and academic lives at urban historically white institutions and offers strategies for creating more inclusive academic and social environments for talented undergraduates.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davis, Adrianne Musu

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Schulleitung, Schulentwicklung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1. Students Like Jada: Invisible High-Achieving Black Women
- 2. Beyond Black and Smart
- 3. Learning While Black and Brilliant
- 4. Thriving and Threats in Campus Life
- 5. Performing Authentic Identities
- 6. Implications for Practice and Conclusion
- Appendix
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index