Too much to ask
Subtitle: Black women in the era of integration
By: Elizabeth Higginbotham.
Series: Gender & American culture
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: African American women -- Education (Higher) -- Longitudinal studies; African American women -- Social conditions -- Longitudinal studies; African American college students -- Longitudinal studies; College integration -- United States; Educational surveys -- United States
Genres: Longitudinal studies.
Description: In the 1960s increasing numbers of African American students entered predominantly white colleges and universities in the northern and western United States. This book focuses on the women of this pioneering generation, examining their educational stragtegies and experiences and exploring how social class, family upbringing, and expectations, their own and others', prepared them to achieve in an often hostile setting.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-275) and index.