The African American Experience
Social and Economic Class in America
Higher Education and the first year experience
Related Topics
Washington, D.C.; African
Americans and Minorities
Brown University
MITES (Minority introduction to Engineering and Sciences)
Theme sources:
The African American experience
Hard Copy Materials available @
Friedsam Memorial Library:
Reference Sources:
Appiah, Kwame
Anthony and Henry Louis Gates. Africana: Encyclopedia of the African &
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Estell, K., ed. “The African American Almanac.” 7th ed. NY: Gale, 1997
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American Civil Rights
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History NY:
Macmillan, 1996 (5 vols.)
Selected Other Sources:
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Bass, Jack and Jack Nelson. “The Orangeburg Massacre.” NY: World Publication, 1970. (available at Friedsam)
Berry, Brewton. "Race and Ethnic Relations." Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965.
Bray, Rosemary L. “Unafraid of the Dark: A Memoir.” Anchor, 1999.
Drake, St. Clair. "Black Metropolis: a Study of Negro Life in a Northern City." NY: Harper & Row, 1962.
Felder, Cain. "Troubling Biblical Waters: Race, Class, and Family." Mary Knoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1989.
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Underclass, Poverty, Unemployment and Entrapment of Ghetto Youth." NY: Vintage
Press,
1980.
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A White Man’s Journey into Black America.” Missouri:
University of Missouri Press, 1999.
Heilbut, Tony. "The Gospel Sound: Good News and Bad Times." NY: Simon and Schuster, 1971.
Lelyveld, Joseph, et. al.
“How Race is Lived in America: Pulling Together, Pulling
Apart.” NY: Henry Holt Company, 2001
Lincoln, Eric and Lawrence
Mamiya. "Black Church in the African American Experience." Durham, NC: Duke
University Press, 1990.
Macleod, Jay. "Ain't No Makin'
It: Leveled Aspirations in a Low-income Neighborhood." Boulder, CO: Westview
Press,
1987.
McBride, James. “The Color of
Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother.”
reissued ed. NY: Riverhead Trade, 1997
Nelson, Hart M., ed. "Black Church in America." NY: Basic Books, 1971.
"Self -Esteem Development and African-American Education. Ed. Faustine C.
Jones-Wilson et. al. Encyclopedia of
African-American Education. Westport,
CT: Greenwood Press, 1996: 406-407.
Shujaa, Mwalimu. Too much schooling, too little education, a paradox of
black life in white society. Trenton, NJ:
Africa World Press, 1994.
Smith, Daryl G, et al. The Challenge of Diversity: involvement or
alienation in the academy? Hobooken, NJ: Jossey-
Bass, 2005.
Ward, Brian. "Just My Soul
Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness, and Race Relations."
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Univ. of California Press, 1998.
Wilson, William Julius. "When Work Disappears: the World of the New Urban Poor." NY: Knopf, 1996.
Internet Links:
African American World (PBS)
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/
Black History Month (infoplease
"feature")
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhm1.html
Noguera, Pedro A. "The
Trouble with Black Boys: The Role and Influence of Environmental and Cultural
Factors on the Academic Performance
of African American Males."
link
Wikipedia article: African
Americans
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American
Wikipedia article: African
American History
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American_history
Audiovisual Materials:
Facing racism. Tom Weidlinger and Ruby Dee. Films for the Humanities. 1997. (videocassette)
Social and Economic Class in America
Hard Copy Materials available @ Friedsam Memorial Library:
selected sources:
Burns, Edward and David
Simon. “The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City
Neighborhood.” NY: Broadway, 1997
(Available at Friedsam)
Kozol, Jonathan. “Amazing
Grace: the lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation.”
NY: Harper Perennial, 1996.
(Available at Friedsam Memorial Library)
Internet links:
Abel, Charles F. “Academic Success and the International Student: Research and Recommendations.” New Directions for Higher Education 117 (Spring 2002): 13-20. ERIC. EBSCO. Friedsam Memorial Lib., St. Bonaventure, NY. 6 June 2006. link
Burd, Stephen. “Bridging the Gap.” Chronicle of Higher Education Aug. 2002: A22-A25. ERIC. EBSCO. Friedsam Memorial Lib., St. Bonaventure, NY. 6 June 2006. link
Ishitani, Terry T. “A Longitudinal Approach to Assessing Attrition Behavior among First-Generation Students: Time-Varying Effects of Pre-College Characteristics.” Research in Higher Education 44.4 (Aug. 2003): 433-49. ERIC. EBSCO. Friedsam Memorial Lib., St. Bonaventure, NY. 6 June 2006. link
“It Is My Dream to Go to University.” Boston Globe 19 Sept. 2004: B9. ProQuest Research Library. ProQuest Information and Learning. Friedsam Memorial Lib., St. Bonaventure, NY. 6 June 2006. link
Kane, Michael A., et al. “Fostering Success among Traditionally Underrepresented Student Groups.” Community College Journal of Research and Practice 28.1 (Jan. 2004): 17-26. ERIC. EBSCO. Friedsam Memorial Lib., St. Bonaventure, NY. 6 June 2006. link
Lacina, Jan Guidry. “Preparing International Students for a Successful Social Experience in Higher Education.” New Directions for Higher Education 117 (Spring 2002): 21-28. ERIC. EBSCO. Friedsam Memorial Lib., St. Bonaventure, NY. 6 June 2006. link
Martinez, Maria D. “Missing in Action: Reconstructing Hope and Possibility among Latino Students Placed at Risk.” Journal of Latinos and Education 2.1 (2003): 13-21. ERIC. EBSCO. Friedsam Memorial Lib., St. Bonaventure, NY. 6 June 2006. link
Naumann, Wendy C., Deborah Bandalos, and Terry B. Gutkin. “Identifying Variables That Predict College Success for First-Generation College Students.” Journal of College Admission 181 (Fall 2003): 4-9. ERIC. EBSCO. Friedsam Memorial Lib., St. Bonaventure, NY. 6 June 2006. link
Richardson, Lynda. “From Hardware to Harvard in a Few Hard Years.” New York Times 22 June 2004: B4. ProQuest Research Library. ProQuest Information and Learning. Friedsam Memorial Lib., St. Bonaventure, NY. 6 June 2006. link
Rodriguez, Sandria. “What Helps Some First-Generation Students Succeed?” About Campus 8.4 (Sept.-Oct. 2003): 17-22. ERIC. EBSCO. Friedsam Memorial Lib., St. Bonaventure, NY. 6 June 2006. link
United States. National Center for Education Statistics. First-Generation Students in Postsecondary Education: A Look at Their College Transcripts. By Xianglei Chen and C. Dennis Carroll. Washington: National Center for Education Statistics, 2005. ERIC. EBSCO. Friedsam Memorial Lib., St. Bonaventure, NY. 6 June 2006. link
Audiovisual Materials:
Higher Education and the First Year Experience
-link to SBU Counseling Center
Hard Copy Materials
available @ Friedsam Memorial Library:
Reference sources:
Hunter, Mary Stuart et al. "College Seminars for First-Year Students."
Encyclopedia of Education. 2nd edition. Ed.
James W. Guthrie. vol. 1 (8 vols.)
NY: Thomas/Gale, 2003: 399-401.
"Immediate Transition to College." The Condition of Education, 2005. Ed. John
Wirt. Washington, DC: U.S.
Department of Education, 2005:
154-156.
Other sources:
Arrington, Zach. "Confessions of a college
freshman: (a survival guide for dorm life, biology lab, the cafeteria,
and other first year
adventures)." Tulsa, OK: RiverOak Publishing, 2001.
Billings, Gloria Ladson.
"Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children." San Francisco:
Jossey-Bass
Publications, 1994.
Bok,
Derek Curtis and William G. Brown. “The Shape of the River: Long Term
Consequences of Considering Race in
College and University Admission.” NJ:
Princeton University Press, 1998.
Boyer, Ernest L. "College: the undergraduate experience in America." New York: Harper & Row, 1987.
Brown, O Gilbert. “Debunking
the Myth: Stories of African-American University
Students.” Bloomington, IN: Phi Delta Kappa International, 1994.
Corwin, Miles. “ And Still We
Rise: the Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City
Students.” NY: Harper Perennial, 2001.
Davis, Todd M. "Turning teaching into learning: the role of student
responsibility in the collegiate experience."
Washington: School of Education
and Human Development, George Washington University, 1993.
Ferguson, Ann Arnett. “Bad
Boys: Public schools in the making of Black masculinity.”
Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 2001.
Foster, Michele and
Jacqueline Jordan Irvine. “Growing up African American in Catholic
Schools.” NY: Teachers College Press, Columbia University, 1996
Gardner, John N. and Jerome Jewler, ed. "Your college experience:
strategies for success." Belmont: Wadsworth
Pub. Co., 1995.
Hale-Benson. Janice E. “Black
Children: Their roots, culture and learning styles.”
revised ed. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1982.
Kao, Grace and Marta Tienda.
"Educational Aspirations among Minority Youth." American Journal of Education
106. (1998) 349-84.
Kozol, Jonathan. "Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools." NY: Crown, 1991.
Lomotey, Kofi. "Going to School: The African American Experience." NY: State University of New York, 1990.
Mahiri, Jabari. “Shooting for Excellence.” NY: Teachers College Press, Columbia University, 1998.
McCarthy, John. "Attributional style and its effect on the academic
achievement of first-year college
students." 1989.
Noguera, Pedro. “City Schools
and the American Dream: Reclaiming the Promise of
Public Education.” NY: Teachers College Press, 2003.
Rathbone, Cristina. “On the
Outside Looking In: Stories from an Inner City High School.
Washington: Atlantic Monthly
Press, 1998.
Sax, Linda J. et al. The American Freshman: National Norms for Fall 2002. Los
Angeles, CA: Higher Education
Research Institute, 2002.
Snyder, Thomas D., Ed. Digest of Educational Statistics 2003. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, 2004.
Wieder, Alan. Race and Education: narrative essays, oral histories, and
documentaries, and documentary
photography. NY: Peter Lang, 1997.
Yuen, C. Nathalie. Internet Dependency and friendsickness: Before and
after a collegiate Holiday. Thesis. NY:
St. Bonaventure University, March
2003.
Internet Links:
Baumeister, Audrey L. and Eric A. Storch. "Correlations of Religious Beliefs
with Loneliness for an Undergraduate
Sample." Psychological Reports
94.3 (2004): 859-862. PsycInfo. EBSC. Friedsam Memorial Library, St.
Bonaventure, NY 6 June 2006.
link
Beyers, Wim and Luc Goossens. "Concurrent and predictive validity of the
Student Adaptation to College
Questionnaire in a sample of European
freshman students." Educational and Psychological Measurement 62.3
(2002): 527-538. PsycInfo. EBSCO.
Friedsam Memorial Library, St. Bonaventure, NY 6 June 2006.
link
Blockus, Linda, Gary Moss and Peggy Placier. "College student personal growth
in retrospect: A comparison of
African American and White Alumni."
Journal of College Student Development 33.5 (1992): 462-47. PsycInfo.
EBSCO. Friedsam Memorial Library, St.
Bonaventure, NY 6 June 2006.
link
Boivin, Michel. "Attachments to parents, social support expectations, and
socioemotional adjustment during the
high-school-college transition."
Journal of Research on Adolescence 8.1 (1998): 1-27. Academic Search Elite.
EBSCO. Friedsam Memorial Library, St.
Bonaventure, NY 6 June 2006.
link
Buford, Brian, Michael Maples and Steve Taylor. " Gay, Lesbian and bisexual
college students: The relationship
between sexual orientation and
depression, loneliness, and suicide." Journal of College Student
Psychotherapy
15.3 (2001): 71-82. PsycInfo.
EBSCO. Friedsam Memorial Library, St. Bonaventure, NY 6 June 2006.
link
Davis, Greta A. and David A. Hermon. " College Student Wellness: A Comparison
Between Traditional and
Nontraditional-age students."
Journal of College Counseling 7.1 (2004):32-39. PsycInfo. EBSCO Friedsam
Memorial Library, St. Bonaventure, NY
6 June 2006.
link
Fowers, Blaine J. et. al. " Biculturalism, differentness, loneliness,
alienation in Hispanic college students." Hispanic
Hispanic Journal of Behavioral
Sciences 19.4 (1997): 489-505. PsycInfo. EBSCO. Friedsam Memorial Library,
St.
Bonaventure, NY 6 June 2006.
link
Jackson, Todd, Adam Soderlind and Karen E. Weiss. "Personality traits and
quality of relationships as predictors of
future loneliness among American
college students." Social Behavior and Personality 28.5 (2000): 463-470.
PsycInfo. EBSCO. Friedsam Memorial
Library, St. Bonaventure, NY 6 June 2006.
link
Mayseless, Ofra, Hadas Wiseman and Ruth Sharabany. "Why are they
lonely? Perceived quality of early relationships
with parents, attachment, personality
predispositions and loneliness in first-year university students."
Personality
and Individual Differences
40.2 (2006): 237-248. PsycInfo. EBSCO. Friedsam Memorial Library, St.
Bonaventure, NY 6 June 2006.
link
Mounts, Nina S. "Contributions of Parenting and
Campus Climate to Freshman Adjustment in a Multiethnic Sample."
Journal of Adolescent Research
19.4 (2004): 468-49. PsycInfo. EBSCO. Friedsam Memorial Library, St.
Bonaventure, NY 6 June 2006.
link
Russell, Daniel, Meifen Wei and Robin
Zakalik. "Adult Attachment,
Social
Self-Efficacy,
Self-Disclosure, Loneliness,
and Subsequent Depression for
Freshman College Students: A Longitudinal Study." Journal of Counseling
Psychology 52:4 (2004)
:602-614 PsycInfo. EBSCO. Friedsam Memorial Library, St. Bonaventure, NY 6 June
2006.
link
Stroebe, Margaret et. al. "Homesickness among students in two cultures:
Antecedent and consequences." British
Journal of Psychology 93.2
(2002): 147-168. Academic Search Elite. EBSCO. Friedsam Memorial Library, St.
Bonaventure, NY 6 June 2006.
link
Audiovisual Materials:
Higher Learning. John Singleton, et. al.
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, 2001. (DVD)
School Daze. Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, 1988. (available on
videocassette or DVD)
Wellness.
Charles B. Corbin and Human Kinetics Publishers. 2002. (5 videocassettes)
Related Topics sources:
African Americans in Washington, D.C.
Hard Copy Materials available @ Friedsam Memorial Library:
Battle, Thomas C. “Washington
D.C.” Encyclopedia of African American Culture and
History vol. 5. NY:
Macmillian, 1996
Brown, Letitia Woods. "Free Negroes in the District of Columbia 1790-1846." NY:
Oxford University Press, 1972.
Brown, Letitia Woods and
Elsie M. Lewis. "Washington From Banneker to Douglass." Washington: National
Portrait
Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, 1971.
Brown, Letitia Woods. "Washington In the New Era." Washington: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, 1972.
Gale, Dennis E. "Inner-City Revitalization and Minority Suburbanization." Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987.
Gilbert, Ben W. "Ten Blocks
from the White House: Anatomy of the Washington Riots of 1968." NY: Frederick A.
Praeger,
1968.
Green, Constance McLaughlin.
"The Secret City: A History of Race Relations in the Nation's Capital." NJ:
Princeton
University Press, 1967.
Harrold, Stanley.
"Antislavery Community in Subversives: Washington, D.C. 1828-1865." Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State
University Press, 2003.
Howell, Joseph. "Hard Living on Clay Street: Portraits of Blue Collar Families." NY: Anchor/Doubleday, 1973.
Moore, Jacqueline M. "Leading
the Race: The Transformation of the Black Elite in the Nation's Capital,
1880-1920."
Charlottesville: University Press of
Virginia, 1999.
Brown University
-http://www.brown.edu/
MITES
(Minority Introduction to Engineering and Sciences)
Internet sources:
Bass, Cato. “Bill Schutz, Helped Expand Tech Programs [Obituary].” The
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
24 Dec. 1996: B7. ProQuest
Research Library. ProQuest Information and Learning. Friedsam Memorial
Lib., St. Bonaventure, NY. 6
June 2006
link
Begay-Campbell, Sandra. “Sandra Begay-Campbell.” Engineer Girl! 2005. National Acad. of Engineering. 6 June 2006 link
Coons, Phyllis. “Minority Students Gain Perspective on Engineering in MIT
Project.” BostonGlobe 31 July 1987,
sec. Metro: 18. ProQuest Research
Library. ProQuest Information and Learning. Friedsam Memorial Lib., St.
Bonaventure, NY. 6 June 2006
link
“Keith, Kyle Gwathney Participate in Conference.” News Sentinel [Knoxville, TN] 16 Sept. 1998: W9. ProQuest Research Library. ProQuest Information and Learning. Friedsam Memorial Lib., St. Bonaventure, NY. 6 June 2006 link
“Kid Academics.” Topeka Capital Journal 7 May 2000, YKC ed.: B1. ProQuest Research Library. ProQuest Information and Learning. Friedsam Memorial Lib., St. Bonaventure, NY. 6 June 2006 link
Minority Introduction to Technology in Engineering (MITE). 2006. Univ. of Missouri--Rolla. 6 June 2006 link
“MITE Brings Monica Hagler to Auburn.” Auburn Enginnering 7.2 (Fall 1996). 6 June 2006 link
MITES: Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science Program. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology. 6 June 2006 link
“MIT Professor Celebrates 60th Birthday with Scholarship Fund.” Black Issues in Higher Education 9 May 2002: 19. Academic Search Elite. EBSCO. Friedsam Memorial Lib., St. Bonaventure, NY. 6 June 2006 link
Nolan, Maureen. “Managing Time Is Critical for Corey Harris.” The Post-Standard [Syracuse, NY] 13 Dec. 2005: B6. ProQuest Research Library. ProQuest Information and Learning. Friedsam Memorial Lib., St. Bonaventure, NY. 6 June 2006 link
Saathoff, Deborah. “Scholarship a Boost to Confidence.” Dallas Morning News 23 Jan. 1996, Education Extra ed.: 20A. ProQuest Research Library. ProQuest Information and Learning. Friedsam Memorial Lib., St. Bonaventure, NY. 6 June 2006 link
Sanchez, Sara. MITE--Introduction to Engineering. 2006. The Univ. of Texas at Austin. 6 June 2006 link
Silverstien, Stuart. “Race-Based Policies Challenged; About 20 Universities Are Said to Discriminate Against Whites or Asian Americans.” Los Angeles Times 28 Feb. 2003: A26. ProQuest Research Library. ProQuest Information and Learning. Friedsam Memorial Lib., St. Bonaventure, NY. 6 June 2006 link
“U.S. Coast Guard, Auxiliary Offers Programs for Juniors.” St. Petersburg Times 22 Feb. 2003, State ed., sec. Hernando Times: 10. ProQuest Research Library. ProQuest Information and Learning. Friedsam Memorial Lib., St. Bonaventure, NY. 6 June 2006 link