Derrick R. Brooms, Jelisa Clark, Matthew Smith

Empowering Men of Color on Campus

Building Student Community in Higher Education

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Empowering Men of Color on Campus examines how men of color negotiate college through their engagement in Brothers for United Success (B4US). The authors introduce the concept of educational agency, which is harbored in cultural wealth and demonstrates how ongoing B4US engagement empowers the men's efforts and abilities to persist in college"--

Produktdetails

• The American Campus
• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 197mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 392g
• ISBN-13: 9780813594767
• ISBN-10: 0813594766
• Artikelnr.: 51142143

Autorenporträt

DERRICK R. BROOMS is an associate professor of sociology and Africana Studies at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio. He is the author of Being Black, Being Male on Campus: Understanding and Confronting Black Male Collegiate Experiences. JELISA CLARK is a visiting assistant professor of sociology at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina. MATTHEW SMITH is a doctoral student in the School of Educational Studies program at Claremont Graduate University in California. He is also the director of Educational Partnerships at California State University Dominquez Hills.  

Inhaltsangabe

Contents         
Introduction                                                                                                               
1 Men of Color in Higher Education
2 Race, Resilience, and Naming One’s Own Reality in the Transition to
College    
3 Building Community from Cultural Wealth(s)
4 Engaging and Empowering Black and Latino Men through
Leadership               
5 (Re)Imagining and (Re)Writing the
Narrative                                                        
6 Supporting Men of Color’s Success Efforts
Appendices and Conclusion
References
Notes
Index
Acknowledgements
About the Authors