Separate and Unequal: Two Black Student Pioneers Who Were Treated as Social Pariahs at Predominantly White Universities

2005 ◽  
pp. 27
Keyword(s):  
Predominantly White ◽  
Black Student ◽  
Predominantly White Universities ◽  
Separate And Unequal

NCOBPS Fifty Years

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-135
Author(s):  
William J. Daniels
Keyword(s):  
Predominantly White ◽  
Black Student ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Protest ◽  
Predominantly White Institution ◽  
Significant Events ◽  
White Institution ◽  
The 1960S

This personal narrative recounts the experiences of an NCOBPS founder, who discusses significant events in his life from student to faculty that motivated his professional journey, including his participation in the founding of NCOBPS. It reflects on what it meant to be a black student, and later, a black faculty member teaching at a predominantly white institution in the political science discipline in the 1960s. It also provides a glimpse into how the freedom movements shaped his fight for fundamental rights as a citizen. Finally, it gives credence to the importance of independent black organizations as agents for political protest and vehicles for economic and social justice.

Race and Racism in the Experiences of Black Male Resident Assistants at Predominantly White Universities

2011 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaun R. Harper ◽  
Ryan J. Davis ◽  
David E. Jones ◽  
Brian L. McGowan ◽  
Ted N. Ingram ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Predominantly White ◽  
Black Male ◽  
Resident Assistants ◽  
Race And Racism ◽  
Male Resident ◽  
Predominantly White Universities

Learning While Black: A Culturally Informed Model of the Impostor Phenomenon for Black Graduate Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 491-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Stone ◽  
Chastity Saucer ◽  
Marlon Bailey ◽  
Ramya Garba ◽  
Ashley Hurst ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Predominantly White ◽  
Impostor Phenomenon ◽  
Predominantly White Universities ◽  
Culturally Informed ◽  
Black Graduate Students ◽  
Impostor Feelings ◽  
Psychosocial Costs ◽  
Internal Sense ◽  
Relevant Factors

This study presents a culturally informed model of the impostor phenomenon construct for Black graduate students who attend predominantly White universities. The impostor phenomenon is an internal sense of intellectual fraudulence and a tendency to attribute success to external factors, such as luck. However, the original construct was conceptualized with a sample of White individuals and may not capture the culturally relevant factors for Black graduate students such as race or racial discrimination. Furthermore, only one empirical study investigates impostor feelings in Black graduate students. The current study addresses these gaps by using focus groups to qualitatively investigate the impostor phenomenon in 12 Black graduate students. Inductive thematic analysis revealed five themes ( Awareness of Low Racial Representation, Questioning Intelligence, Expectations, Psychosocial Costs, and Explaining Success Externally) and multiple subthemes. The findings extend the original construct, contribute to a culturally informed framework for understanding the impostor phenomenon in Black graduate students, and have implications for theory, educators, clinicians, and researchers.

scholarly journals This [Black] Woman’s Work: Exploring Archival Projects that Embrace the Identity of the Memory Worker

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Chaitra Powell ◽  
Holly Smith ◽  
Shanee' Murrain ◽  
Skyla Hearn
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Predominantly White ◽  
Emotional Labor ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Black Colleges ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
Predominantly White Universities ◽  
Archival Profession ◽  
Woman's Work

Archivists who work on African American collections are increasingly more aware that traditional sites of African American agency and autonomy are becoming more unstable. The need to capture the perspectives and histories of these institutions is urgent. The challenges become more acute when communities recognize the need to preserve their legacies but do not have the resources or support to make it happen. African American material culture and history remains at risk of co-optation from large institutions and individuals seeking to monetize and profit from collecting Black collections. Endemic in that process is the risk of these institutions controlling the narrative and inadvertently or deliberately erasing the narratives of these diverse communities from that community’s perspective. Cultural memory workers focused on African American collections face numerous challenges: the risk of losing the materials or communities themselves; partnering with organizations and administrations with differing, and perhaps conflicting agendas; working on projects with limited or term funding; and the emotional labor of being a person of color in a predominantly white field trying to support communities that can often reflect their own experiences. How can libraries, museums, and archives bring these communities into the world of archives and empower them to protect and share their stories? How can archivists, particularly those of color, find support within their institutions and the archival profession, to accomplish this work of preserving African American cultural heritage? How can archives support genuinely collaborative projects with diverse Black communities without co-opting their stories and collections?The authors will address these questions in this article, discussing their experiences working with a variety of institutions—predominantly white universities, Black colleges, churches, neighborhoods and families. The authors also include their reflections from their National Conference of African American Librarians panel presentation in August 2017 on these related topics.

scholarly journals Campus Racial Climate, Boundary Work and the Fear and Sexualization of Black Masculinities on a Predominantly White University

2021 ◽  
pp. 1097184X2110390
Author(s):  
Quaylan Allen
Keyword(s):  
Predominantly White ◽  
Black Men ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Boundary Work ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Racial Climate ◽  
Campus Racial Climate ◽  
Predominantly White Universities ◽  
Predominantly White University ◽  
The University

This article presents data from a study of Black men and masculinities at a predominantly White university. I argue that the campus racial climate on predominantly White universities are important sites of boundary work where fear and sexualization of Black masculinities are normalized in ways that shape Black men’s social relations on college campuses. In doing so, I will share narrative data of how Black male college students perceive the campus racial climate, with a focus on how they are feared and sexualized in predominantly White spaces. I also analyze the ways in which they managed race, gender, and sexuality within school spaces, and situate their gendered performances within the context of the boundary work of the university. Attention will be given to their agency in how they respond to White fears and sexualization of Black men.

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