Black campus life : the worlds black students make at a historically white institution
African American college students African Americans Engineering students Discrimination in higher education
State University of New York Press
2021
EISBN 9781438485928
Intro.
Contents.
Illustrations.
Acknowledgments.
Chapter 1 Learning About Campus Life from Black Engineering Majors.
Studying Black Campus Life through Social Worlds.
Racial Realities on Campus.
Examining Two Crises.
Project Description.
Studying Black Student Life.
Thinking with Theories.
Using Pierre Bourdieu's Theory of Practice.
Critical Race Theory.
Making Black Lives Matter in Research.
The Organization of Black Campus Life.
Chapter 2 Understanding the Past and Present of West Side University.
Campus Life and Shifting Campus Color Lines.
The History of Caldwell School of Engineering.
When WSU Engineers Were White and Asian Men.
The Short History of Black People in Engineering at WSU.
Diversity and Caldwell.
Introducing Four Social Worlds and Four Students.
The Black WSU Social World.
The Black Engineering Social World.
The Engineering School Social World.
The Mainstream WSU Social World.
The Black Community.
Chapter 3 The Time and Space to Engage in the Black Community.
Black Places on Campus.
The Black Community and a Sense of Place.
The Stoop.
Engaging in the Black Community.
Tensions between Collective and Individual Interests.
The Midnight Brunch.
The Black Community Social World: In Summary.
Centering Black Campus Communities.
Chapter 4 Johnson's Story.
The Black Community.
The Black Engineering Community.
The Engineering School Community.
The Mainstream WSU Community.
The Black Engineering Community.
Chapter 5 Examining NSBE: How Black Engineers Do It for the Culture.
The NSBE Community at a Glance.
NSBE Structure.
Tension between the Engagement and Burdens of Being an NSBE Member.
The Potential Burdens.
Tension between Strategic Essentialism and Antiessentialism.
Tension between a Family Focus and an Engineering Career Focus.
Brown Sugar..
The Black Engineering Social World: In Summary.
Chapter 6 Jasmine's Story.
The Black Engineering Community.
The Black Community.
The Engineering School Community.
The Mainstream WSU Community.
The Engineering School Community.
Chapter 7 Organizational Involvement: Diversity Dilution and Antiblackness.
Caldwell at a Glance.
Different Majors, Different Experiences.
The Caldwell Racial Climate.
The Tension between Diversity and Invisibility.
Experiencing Hypervisibility.
Experiencing Institutional Invisibility.
The Multicultural Engineering Office and Diversity Dilution.
The Tension between Membership in NSBE and Other Engineering Organizations.
Identity‑based Engineering Organizations.
NSBE and SWE.
NSBE and SHPE.
Engineering Societies.
Caldwell Organizational Involvement: In Summary.
Chapter 8 Informal Relationships: The (Im)Possibility of Peer Collaboration.
The Tension between Group Work and Being the Only One.
The Importance of Groups.
Forming Study Groups and Working Alone.
Cheating and Collaboration in Caldwell.
Tension between Expecting and Experiencing Racism.
Study Days.
The Caldwell Social World: In Summary.
The Boundary of Antiblackness.
Chapter 9 Nina's Story.
The Engineering School and Black Engineering Community.
The Black Community.
The Mainstream WSU Community.
Chapter 10 Negotiating Racism: Is Mainstream Campus Life for White Students?.
Tension between WSU Life and Caldwell Responsibilities.
Tensions of Doing Diversity and Negotiating Racism.
Fraternity Row.
Diverse Friendships and Diverging Viewpoints.
An Expectation of Racism.
Not in a Place to Experience Racism.
The WSU Involvement Fair.
The Mainstream Campus Community: In Summary.
Chapter 11 Martin's Story.
The Mainstream WSU Community.
The Black Engineering Community..
The Engineering School Community.
Chapter 12 Sociology and the Blues of Campus Life.
Social Worlds, Boundaries, and Tensions.
Linked Fate.
Labor.
Antiblackness.
Black Engineering Students and Engineering Career Capital.
Black Social Worlds and Achievement.
The Problem of Student Collaboration.
A Note on Studying Race on Campus.
Implications for Practice.
Conclusion.
Appendix.
Notes on Theory and Methods.
Why Social Worlds?.
Why CRT and Bourdieu?.
Are Social Worlds Fields?.
Data Collection Methods.
Access.
Participant Selection.
Interviews and Observation.
My Identity and Positionality.
Data Representation.
Quotations.
Talking About Racism.
Limitations.
Notes.
References.
Index.
Ethnography of Black engineering majors navigating campus life at a historically White university.
Contents.
Illustrations.
Acknowledgments.
Chapter 1 Learning About Campus Life from Black Engineering Majors.
Studying Black Campus Life through Social Worlds.
Racial Realities on Campus.
Examining Two Crises.
Project Description.
Studying Black Student Life.
Thinking with Theories.
Using Pierre Bourdieu's Theory of Practice.
Critical Race Theory.
Making Black Lives Matter in Research.
The Organization of Black Campus Life.
Chapter 2 Understanding the Past and Present of West Side University.
Campus Life and Shifting Campus Color Lines.
The History of Caldwell School of Engineering.
When WSU Engineers Were White and Asian Men.
The Short History of Black People in Engineering at WSU.
Diversity and Caldwell.
Introducing Four Social Worlds and Four Students.
The Black WSU Social World.
The Black Engineering Social World.
The Engineering School Social World.
The Mainstream WSU Social World.
The Black Community.
Chapter 3 The Time and Space to Engage in the Black Community.
Black Places on Campus.
The Black Community and a Sense of Place.
The Stoop.
Engaging in the Black Community.
Tensions between Collective and Individual Interests.
The Midnight Brunch.
The Black Community Social World: In Summary.
Centering Black Campus Communities.
Chapter 4 Johnson's Story.
The Black Community.
The Black Engineering Community.
The Engineering School Community.
The Mainstream WSU Community.
The Black Engineering Community.
Chapter 5 Examining NSBE: How Black Engineers Do It for the Culture.
The NSBE Community at a Glance.
NSBE Structure.
Tension between the Engagement and Burdens of Being an NSBE Member.
The Potential Burdens.
Tension between Strategic Essentialism and Antiessentialism.
Tension between a Family Focus and an Engineering Career Focus.
Brown Sugar..
The Black Engineering Social World: In Summary.
Chapter 6 Jasmine's Story.
The Black Engineering Community.
The Black Community.
The Engineering School Community.
The Mainstream WSU Community.
The Engineering School Community.
Chapter 7 Organizational Involvement: Diversity Dilution and Antiblackness.
Caldwell at a Glance.
Different Majors, Different Experiences.
The Caldwell Racial Climate.
The Tension between Diversity and Invisibility.
Experiencing Hypervisibility.
Experiencing Institutional Invisibility.
The Multicultural Engineering Office and Diversity Dilution.
The Tension between Membership in NSBE and Other Engineering Organizations.
Identity‑based Engineering Organizations.
NSBE and SWE.
NSBE and SHPE.
Engineering Societies.
Caldwell Organizational Involvement: In Summary.
Chapter 8 Informal Relationships: The (Im)Possibility of Peer Collaboration.
The Tension between Group Work and Being the Only One.
The Importance of Groups.
Forming Study Groups and Working Alone.
Cheating and Collaboration in Caldwell.
Tension between Expecting and Experiencing Racism.
Study Days.
The Caldwell Social World: In Summary.
The Boundary of Antiblackness.
Chapter 9 Nina's Story.
The Engineering School and Black Engineering Community.
The Black Community.
The Mainstream WSU Community.
Chapter 10 Negotiating Racism: Is Mainstream Campus Life for White Students?.
Tension between WSU Life and Caldwell Responsibilities.
Tensions of Doing Diversity and Negotiating Racism.
Fraternity Row.
Diverse Friendships and Diverging Viewpoints.
An Expectation of Racism.
Not in a Place to Experience Racism.
The WSU Involvement Fair.
The Mainstream Campus Community: In Summary.
Chapter 11 Martin's Story.
The Mainstream WSU Community.
The Black Engineering Community..
The Engineering School Community.
Chapter 12 Sociology and the Blues of Campus Life.
Social Worlds, Boundaries, and Tensions.
Linked Fate.
Labor.
Antiblackness.
Black Engineering Students and Engineering Career Capital.
Black Social Worlds and Achievement.
The Problem of Student Collaboration.
A Note on Studying Race on Campus.
Implications for Practice.
Conclusion.
Appendix.
Notes on Theory and Methods.
Why Social Worlds?.
Why CRT and Bourdieu?.
Are Social Worlds Fields?.
Data Collection Methods.
Access.
Participant Selection.
Interviews and Observation.
My Identity and Positionality.
Data Representation.
Quotations.
Talking About Racism.
Limitations.
Notes.
References.
Index.
Ethnography of Black engineering majors navigating campus life at a historically White university.
