Taming the River (eBook)

Negotiating the Academic, Financial, and Social Currents in Selective Colleges and Universities

Camille Z. Charles, Mary J. Fischer, Douglas S. Massey, Margarita A. Mooney (Autoren)

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2009
320 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3005-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Building on their important findings in The Source of the River, the authors now probe even more deeply into minority underachievement at the college level. Taming the River examines the academic and social dynamics of different ethnic groups during the first two years of college. Focusing on racial differences in academic performance, the book identifies the causes of students' divergent grades and levels of personal satisfaction with their institutions. Using survey data collected from twenty-eight selective colleges and universities, Taming the River considers all facets of student life, including who students date, what fields they major in, which sports they play, and how they perceive their own social and economic backgrounds. The book explores how black and Latino students experience pressures stemming from campus racial climate and "e;stereotype threat"e;--when students underperform because of anxieties tied to existing negative stereotypes. Describing the relationship between grade performance and stereotype threat, the book shows how this link is reinforced by institutional practices of affirmative action. The authors also indicate that when certain variables are controlled, minority students earn the same grades, express the same college satisfaction, and remain in school at the same rates as white students. A powerful look at how educational policies unfold in America's universities, Taming the River sheds light on the social and racial factors influencing student success.

Autor

Camille Z. Charles is the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the Social Sciences, and professor of sociology, education, and Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Mary J. Fischer is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut. Margarita A. Mooney is assistant professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Douglas S. Massey is the Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.3.2009
• Reihe/Serie: The William G. Bowen Series
• Reihe/Serie: The William G. Bowen Series
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Grundschule
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Academic achievement • Advanced Placement • Affirmative Action • African Americans • African-American Studies • Asthma • Babysitting • Bachelor's degree • black people • Brown v. Board of Education • Civil Rights Act of 1964 • College Board • Color line (civil rights issue) • Course credit • Cronbach's alpha • Demography • doctorate • dormitory • Dummy variable (statistics) • Early decision • Emotional Well-Being • ethnic group • Ethnic Studies • Exclusion • Extended family • extracurricular activity • Fair Housing Act • Fraternities and sororities • F-Test • Grading (education) • Graduation • grandparent • Gratz v. Bollinger • Grutter v. Bollinger • higher education • Historically Black Colleges and Universities • howard university • Immediate Family • income • Institution • Internalization • Junior (education) • Latino studies • Master of Arts • master's degree • minority group • Minstrel Show • Mixed-sex education • National Longitudinal Surveys • Need-blind admission • one-drop rule • opportunity cost • oppositional culture • Peer Pressure • percentage • Poverty • Private School • private university • Profession • Professional School • Professor • Psychology • Racialization • Racial segregation • Racial segregation in the United States • Racism • remittance • reverse discrimination • reverse racism • Role model • Sampling (Statistics) • SAT • Savage Inequalities • school • Selection bias • Selective school • self-efficacy • Sex Ratio • Short-term memory • Social Alienation • Social Class • Social distance • Socialization • social stigma • Social Studies • Socioeconomic Status • sophomore • statistical significance • Stereotype threat • Student benefits • student loan • study group • Study skills • Thesis • Tuition payments • University and college admission • Volunteering • Voting Rights Act of 1965 • white blood cell • white people
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3005-2 / 1400830052
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3005-3 / 9781400830053