Black Matters - African American African College Students Graduates Tell Their Life

This text presents an anthology of stories of African American and African undergraduate and graduate students' experiences at college, offering lifespan perspectives on their formative relationships and influences, life-changing events, and the role their heritage has played in shaping their personal identities, values, and choices.

Sommario

Preface Introduction PART I LOST AND FOUND 1 Learning in Black and White 2 Multihued 3 Quest for Peace PART II BOTH IN AND OUTSIDE OF BLACKNESS 4 Outside and Between 5 Growing into My Identity 6 Finding Blackness PART III BECOMING 7 Metamorphosis 8 The Big Chop 9 Gotta Keep Climbin' All De Time 10 A Work in Progress PART IV FINDING LIBERTY 11 Quest for Peace: Follow-up 12 Finding Blackness 13 Living, Learning, and Teaching Life Lessons in Middle Class Blackness 14 Forever Home

Info autore

Andrew Garrod is a professor emeritus at Dartmouth College, where he previously chaired the Department of Education, directed the Teacher Education Program, taught courses in adolescence, moral development, and contemporary issues in U.S. education. He has published widely on adolescence and race and ethnicity.
Robert Kilkenny is the founder and executive director of the Alliance for Inclusion and Prevention (AIP) in Boston, MA, a non-profit children’s mental health agency working to promote childhood behavioral health and academic achievement by increasing the use of evidence-based mental health services in schools.

Riassunto

This text presents an anthology of stories of African American and African undergraduate and graduate students’ experiences at college, offering lifespan perspectives on their formative relationships and influences, life-changing events, and the role their heritage has played in shaping their personal identities, values, and choices.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Andrew Kilkenny Garrod
• Con la collaborazione di: Andrew Garrod (Editore), Garrod Andrew (Editore), Robert Kilkenny (Editore), Kilkenny Robert (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.03.2023
• EAN: 9781032396361
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3239636-1
• Pagine: 154
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Etnologia > Etnologia; USA, Ethnic Studies, PSYCHOLOGY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Lifespan Development, Child & developmental psychology, Social, group or collective psychology, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, United States of America, USA, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / African American & Black