The Adjustment of Black Students to Predominantly White Campuses

1973 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 462 ◽  
Author(s):  
James E. Lyons
Keyword(s):  
Black Students ◽  
Predominantly White ◽  
White Campuses

Trends in Black Student Involvement

NASPA Journal ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Michael Sutton ◽  
Walter M. Kimbrough
Keyword(s):  
Black Students ◽  
Predominantly White ◽  
Student Involvement ◽  
Campus Climate ◽  
Black Student ◽  
Campus Organizations ◽  
White Campuses

This study examines trends in Black student involvement within traditional campus organizations at predominantly White campuses. Studies of Black students studying on predominantly White campuses report that their marginal participation within traditional campus organizations is attributed to a campus climate described as cool or unwelcoming.

Negotiations of Women’s Black and Activist Identity Through Dress on the College Campus, 2013–2019

2020 ◽  
pp. 0887302X2096880
Author(s):  
Dyese L. Matthews ◽  
Kelly L. Reddy-Best
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Predominantly White ◽  
Black People ◽  
College Campus ◽  
Predominantly White Institutions ◽  
White Institutions ◽  
Women College Students ◽  
White Campuses ◽  
Embodied Practice

Black people, especially Black women, have used dress to reject racism and discrimination and as a means for negotiating their Black and activist identities. Building on past work, we examine how Black women use dress as an embodied practice to negotiate both their Black and activist identities. We focus on a particular space and time: campus life at predominantly White institutions during the Black Lives Matter movement era from 2013 to 2019.To achieve this purpose, we conducted 15 in-depth, semistructured wardrobe interviews with current Black women college students. Overall, we identified three themes relating to Black women college students: experiences on predominantly White campuses, negotiating Black identity through dress, and negotiating activist identity through dress. Examining how Black women negotiate identity through dress recognizes their stories as important through counter-storytelling, allowing Black women to write their own history in their own voices.

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