Black on white: the life and times of black students on a predominately white university
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-osu11485211062021-08-03T05:51:03Z Black on white: the life and times of black students on a predominately white university Johnston, Naima Tonya African American College Students Black College Students Mentors African American College Presidents Campus Community Campus Climate The premise of this study was to explore the recollections of the experiences of African American graduates from a predominately White university and to understand how these experiences shaped them within the context of their professional and personal lives. Using a qualitative research design, this study uses Critical Race Theory, an emerging theoretical framework in the field of education to better understand the stories and cultural life worlds of the minority college student. Through in depth interviews the study draws from Sarah Willie’s work, Acting Black (2003) as a starting point to understand what the researcher defined as The New Talented Tenth, a term coined by the great intellectual African American, W.E.B. DuBois in an effort to illustrate the responsibilities of the gifted of the race in regard to those who were unable to obtain a higher education. The major findings of the study were: African American students create a separate community with internal cliques. They transmit values to new members, however, the extent of this acceptance of values changes. They do not view the need for this community as one of protection from hostility on campus; rather, the community perpetuates itself for social and emotional purposes. The very nature of racial identifiability, all African American students who do not consciously choose to self-exclude from this community are a part of it, even if they see themselves as outsiders. African American students are dealing with tension between maintaining Africentric values of cooperation and collaboration while adopting more Eurocentric values of competition and individualism. The leadership of a African American president at a predominately White university greatly changed the perceptions of success for African American students on campus as well as the climate. Thus, his death retarded the development of diversity and inclusion and changed the campus climate forcing African American students to adopt new ways of coping on the campus. Implications, and recommendations for educators in developing praxis while opening dialogue and advancing knowledge in the area of the African American college experience were all drawn from the findings of this study. 2006-08-03 English text The Ohio State University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1148521106 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1148521106 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws. |
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