Being Black, Being Male on Campus
Understanding and Confronting Black Male Collegiate Experiences
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Explores how race and gender matter on campus and how Black males navigate college for academic and personal success.
Description
This work marks a radical shift away from the pervasive focus on the challenges that Black male students face and the deficit rhetoric that often limits perspectives about them. Instead, Derrick R. Brooms offers reflective counter-narratives of success. Being Black, Being Male on Campus uses in-depth interviews to investigate the collegiate experiences of Black male students at historically White institutions. Framed through Critical Race Theory and Blackmaleness, the study provides new analysis on the utility and importance of Black Male Initiatives (BMIs). This work explores Black men's perceptions, identity constructions, and ambitions, while it speaks meaningfully to how race and gender intersect as they influence students' experiences.
Derrick R. Brooms is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Louisville.
Reviews
"…injects into the dialogue a voice that is often left out: that of the black male students themselves. " — The Chronicle of Higher Education
"Well written and informative, this exciting project cuts across many of the strengths of previous publications and fills significant theoretical and methodological gaps by focusing on authentically voiced Black men who are finding and making their way in higher education and in life. " — James Earl Davis, coeditor of Educating African American Males: Contexts for Consideration, Possibilities for Practice