1st Edition
Acting Black College, Identity and the Performance of Race
By Sarah Susannah Willie
Copyright 2003
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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Sarah Willie asks: What's it like to be black on campus. For most Black students, attending predominantly white universities, it is a struggle. Do you try to blend in? Do you take a stand? Do you end up acting as the token representative for your whole race? And what about those students who attend predominantly black universities? How do their experiences differ? In Acting Black , Sarah... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Blacks in College: Past and Present 3. One Black in College: Quaker Friends and Baptist Sisters 4. Methodist Northwestern and Congregationalist Howard: Briefly Introduced 5. The Ivory Tower: Life at Northwestern 6. The Ebony Tower: Life at Howard 7. Coda: 'Everybody Used to be Radical' 8. Race 9. Blackness 10. Implications
Biography
Sarah Susannah Willie
