Making It on Broken Promises
Contributors: Cornel West (Foreword); Lee Jones (Editor)
Publisher: Stylus Publishing
Published: April 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781579220501
Subjects: Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Social conditions; Education (Higher); African American men; Education; Education / Teaching; Research; Higher; Social Science / African-American Studies; African American college students; African American college stude; College integration
First sentence: America's Black males may be the forgotten people of modern times.
Description: "Sixteen of America's leading scholars offer an uncompromising critique of the academy from their perspective as African American men." "They challenge dominant majority assumptions about the culture of higher education, most particularly its claims of openness to diversity and divergent traditions." "What is remarkable about the chapters that make up this book - despite the authors' different paths to success, their disparate fields of study, and their distinct voices - is their almost unanimous message that higher education is inimical to African Americans."--Jacket.