Draws on and centers oral histories with Black women college graduates to demonstrate the role of community in fostering their success in and beyond education.

Fully revised, updated edition of the classic text with all new essays assessing the state of race and racial issues in US higher education today.

Offers rich, wide-ranging counternarratives to social, political, and educational discourses that characterize urban schools and communities as places of despair, revealing the resources and strategies of resistance that teachers, students, and families use to succeed and thrive.

Offers insight into race-based disparities in higher education and practical tools for advancing racial equity on college and university campuses.

Ethnography of Black engineering majors navigating campus life at a historically White university.

A rich, authentic account of eight young Black men's experiences on their paths to and through college.

A powerful anthology on the role of curricula in perpetuating—and resisting—oppression.

Follows a Black woman's forty-year career in academia, sharing how race and gender can disrupt and enhance the professional and the personal, from leadership and policies to family life.

Argues that plantation life, its racialized inequities, and the ongoing struggle against them are embedded in not only the physical structures but also the everyday workings of higher education.

Multidisciplinary anthology on teaching issues of race and racism in US college classrooms.