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Black and smart : how Black high-achieving women experience college

Title
Black and smart : how Black high-achieving women experience college / Adrianne Musu Davis.
Author
Davis, Adrianne Musu
Publication
New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2023]

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Description
vii, 179 pages; 22 cm.
Summary
"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"--
Series Statement
The American campus
Subject
  • African American women > Education (Higher)
  • African American college students > Social conditions
  • Gifted women > Interviews
  • Discrimination in higher education > United States
  • Discrimination in higher education
  • African American women
  • African American college students
  • Gifted women
  • United States
Genre/Form
Interviews.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Students Like Jada: Invisible High-Achieving Black Women -- Beyond Black and Smart -- Learning While Black and Brilliant -- Thriving and Threats in Campus Life -- Performing Authentic Identities -- Implications for Practice and Conclusion.
Call Number
Sc D 23-188
ISBN
  • 9781978832374
  • 1978832370
  • 9781978832381
  • 1978832389
  • 9781978832398 (canceled/invalid)
  • 9781978832411 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2022037741
OCLC
1350183708
Author
Davis, Adrianne Musu, author.
Title
Black and smart : how Black high-achieving women experience college / Adrianne Musu Davis.
Publisher
New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2023]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
The American campus
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Subject
Black author.
Research Call Number
Sc D 23-188
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