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Too much to ask : Black women in the era of integration

Title: Too much to ask : Black women in the era of integration / Elizabeth Higginbotham.
Author: Higginbotham, Elizabeth.
Publication: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2001.

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Description

xiv, 288 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

In the 1960s increasing numbers of African American students entered predominantly white colleges and universities in the northern and western United States. This book focuses on the women of this pioneering generation, examining their educational stragtegies and experiences and exploring how social class, family upbringing, and expectations, their own and others', prepared them to achieve in an often hostile setting.

Series Statement

Gender & American culture

Uniform Title

Gender & American culture

Subject

Genre/Form

Longitudinal studies

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-275) and index.

Contents

The women and the era -- Family social class background -- What money can buy : Social class differences in housing and educational options -- The ties that bind : Socialized for survival -- Public high schools : surviving or thriving -- Elite high schools : The cost of advantages -- Adult-sponsored and child-secured mobility -- College : Expectations and reality -- Survival strategies in college -- Struggling to build a satisfying life in a racist society.

ISBN

0807826626
9780807826621
0807849898
9780807849897

LCCN

2001027543

OCLC

ocm46685217
46685217
SCSB-1252521

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library