Empowering Men of Color on Campus

Building Student Community in Higher Education

Derrick R. Brooms, Jelisa Clark, Matthew Smith (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

184 Seiten

2018
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-9476-7 (ISBN)

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Examines how men of colour negotiate college through their engagement in Brothers for United Success (B4US), an institutionally-based male-centred program at an Hispanic Serving Institution. The authors introduce the concept of educational agency, which is harboured in cultural wealth and demonstrates how ongoing B4US engagement empowers the men's efforts and abilities to persist in college.

While recruitment efforts toward men of color have increased at many colleges and universities, their retention and graduation rates still lag behind those of their white peers. Men of color, particularly black and Latino men, face a number of unique challenges in their educational careers that often impact their presence on campus and inhibit their collegiate success. Empowering Men of Color on Campus examines how men of color negotiate college through their engagement in Brothers for United Success (B4US), an institutionally-based male-centered program at a Hispanic Serving Institution. Derrick R. Brooms, Jelisa Clark, and Matthew Smith introduce the concept of educational agency, which is harbored in cultural wealth and demonstrates how ongoing B4US engagement empowers the men's efforts and abilities to persist in college. They found that the cultural wealth(s) of the community enhanced the students' educational agency, which bolstered their academic aspirations, academic and social engagement, and personal development. The authors demonstrate how educational agency and cultural wealth can be developed and refined given salient and meaningful immersions, experiences, engagements, and communal connections.

DERRICK R. BROOMS is an associate professor of sociology and Africana Studies at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio. He is the author of Being Black, Being Male on Campus: Understanding and Confronting Black Male Collegiate Experiences. JELISA CLARK is a visiting assistant professor of sociology at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina. MATTHEW SMITH is a doctoral student in the School of Educational Studies program at Claremont Graduate University in California. He is also the director of Educational Partnerships at California State University Dominquez Hills.

Contents
Introduction
1 Men of Color in Higher Education
2 Race, Resilience, and Naming One's Own Reality in the Transition to College
3 Building Community from Cultural Wealth(s)
4 Engaging and Empowering Black and Latino Men through Leadership
5 (Re)Imagining and (Re)Writing the Narrative
6 Supporting Men of Color's Success Efforts
Appendices and Conclusion
References
Notes
Index
Acknowledgements
About the Authors

Erscheinungsdatum	12.06.2018
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	390 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-8135-9476-6 / 0813594766
ISBN-13	978-0-8135-9476-7 / 9780813594767
Zustand	Neuware