High Achieving African American Students and the College Choice Process: Applying Critical Race Theory

ISBN-13: 9781032238470 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 172 str.

Thandeka K. Chapman; Frances Contreras; Eddie Comeaux

Opis

By critically examining the legal, institutional, and social factors that prohibit or promote students’ college choices, this Volume undermines the notion that African American students and their families are opposed to formal education, and reveals structural barriers which they face in accessing elite institutions.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Preface by Thandeka K. Chapman

Forward by Walter R. Allen

Chapter 1.  Introduction: The Status of African Americans in Postsecondary Education

Chapter 2.  Critical Race Theory, Mixed Methods, and a Conceptual Model of African American High Achievers’ College Choice Process

Chapter 3.  What Makes a Student a High-Achiever? A Profile of African American Students’ Academic Preparation and Planning for College

Chapter 4.  The Strongest System of African American Student Support: The Influences of  Family and Kinship Ties

Chapter 5.  Opportunity to Enroll: The Roles of Counselors and Teachers in African American Student College Choice

Chapter 6.  Diversity as Resource, Recruitment, and Retention: Institutional and Structural Factors Influencing Diversity in Higher Education

Chapter 7.  Complexities of Cost: Navigating Affordability in the College Choice Process

Chapter 8.  Addressing Issues of Race and Racism in the College Choice Process

O autorze

Thandeka K. Chapman is Associate Professor in the Education Studies Department at the University of California San Diego, US.

Frances Contreras is Associate Professor in the Department of Education Studies at UC San Diego and Associate Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity & Inclusion, US.

Eddie Comeaux is Associate Professor of Higher Education at the University of California, Riverside, US.

Eligio Martinez Jr. is Clinical Assistant Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs in the School of Educational Studies at Claremont Graduate University, US.

Gloria M. Rodriguez is Associate Professor at the University of California, Davis School of Education, US.