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Too Much to Ask

Too Much to Ask

by Elizabeth Higginbotham

African American college studentsAfrican American womenCollege integrationEducation (Higher)Educational surveys
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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.

Themes & subjects

African American college studentsAfrican American womenCollege integrationEducation (Higher)Educational surveysLongitudinal studies

Setting

United States

Author

Elizabeth Higginbotham

Pages

304

Read time

≈ 8h

Editions

4

Language

English

Publisher

University of North Carolina Press

ISBN

9780807875278

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