In the 1960s, increasing numbers of African American students entered predominantly White colleges and universities in the northern and western United States. Too Much to Ask focuses on the women of this pioneering generation, examining their educational strategies and experiences and exploring how social class, family upbringing, and expectations--their own and others'--prepared them to achieve in an often hostile setting.Drawing on extensive questionnaires and in-depth interviews with Black women graduates, sociologist Elizabeth Higginbotham sketches the patterns that connected and divided the women who integrated American higher education before the era of affirmative action. Although they shared educational goals, for example, family resources to help achieve those goals varied widely according to their social class. Across class lines, however, both the middle- and working-class women Higginbotham studied noted the importance of personal initiative and perseverance in helping them to combat the institutionalized racism of elite institutions and to succeed.Highlighting the actions Black women took to secure their own futures as well as the challenges they faced in achieving their goals, Too Much to Ask provides a new perspective for understanding the complexity of racial interactions in the post-civil rights era.

Too Much to Ask

Elizabeth Higginbotham

University of North Carolina Press

Emerging Intersections: Race, Class, and Gender in Theory, Policy, and Practice

Bonnie Thornton Dill

Patricia Collins

Ruth Enid Zambrana

Amy McLaughlin

Debra Henderson

Ann Tickamyer

Victoria-Maria MacDonald

Mary Gatta

Tiffany Manuel

Avis Jones-Deweever

Sanford Schram

L. Janelle Dance

Lorrie Ann Frasure

Linda Faye Williams

Rutgers University Press

The Souls of W.E.B. Du Bois (Great Barrington Books)

<p>This work marks the recent passing of the 100th Anniversary of Du Bois' classic of African American literature. More than fifty events and celebrations were held in cities and universities around the country. It poignantly explores the relationship of Du Bois, the man, to his writings. It is written by expert team of authors including the prominent Manning Marable. "The Souls of W. E. B. Du Bois" explores the relationship of W. E. B. Du Bois' seminal book, "The Souls of Black Folk", to other works in his scholarly portfolio and to his larger project concerning race, racial identity, and the social objectives of scholarly engagement. Prominent authors consider why the classic book remains so relevant today.</p>

Souls of W.E.B. Du Bois (Great Barrington Books)

Higginbotham, Elizabeth

MARABLE, MANNING

Lemert, Charles

Charles Lemert

Young Jr., Alford A.

Manning Marable

Watts, Jerry G.

Jerry C. Watts

Teen & Young Adult

Routledge

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