Description
The Agony of Education is about the life experience of African American students attending a historically white university. Based on seventy-seven interviews conducted with black students and parents concerning their experiences with one state university, as well as published and unpublished studies of the black experience at state universities at large, this study captures the painful choices and agonizing dilemmas at the heart of the decisions African Americans must make about higher education.
Table of Contents
1. Black Students at Predominately White College and Universities: The Rhetoric and the Reality; 2. Educational Choices and a University's Reputation: The Importance of Collective Morality; 3. Confronting White Students: The Whiteness of University Spaces; 4. Contending with White Instructors: You Can Feel When Someone Wants You Somewhere; 5. Administrative Barriers to Student Progress: Blocked at Each Turn; 6. Issues of Recruitment and Retention: If They Do Anything, It's to Encourage You to Leave; 7. Racism in Higher Education: The Need for Change
