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Protests against systemic racism have swept across elite colleges and universities, raising questions about what it means for Black students to belong on these campuses. Sherry L. Deckman takes us into the lives of students in the Kuumba Singers, a Black student organization with racially diverse members and a self-proclaimed safe space for anyone but particularly Black students, as a case study in exploring race, diversity, and safe space.
List of contents
Foreword by Richard J. Reddick
Introduction: How Do You Lift
Every Voice?
Prelude: (Un)Safe Space and Racial Diversity in the Ivory Tower
Verse I: Being Black
Verse II: Staying Black
Bridge: Non-Black Members in the Black Choir
Chorus: Learning to Care
Coda: Lessons from the Safe Black Space
Appendix A: Interview Participants
Appendix B: Note on Methods
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the author
SHERRY L. DECKMAN is an associate professor of education at Lehman College, City University of New York in the Bronx. She is the coeditor of Humanizing Education: Critical Alternatives to Reform.
