Black Campus Life

Antar A. Tichavakunda is Assistant Professor of Higher Education at the University of Cincinnati.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments1. Learning About Campus Life from Black Engineering Majors2. Understanding the Past and Present of West Side UniversityThe Black Community 3. The Time and Space to Engage in the Black Community4. Johnson's StoryThe Black Engineering Community 5. Examining NSBE: How Black Engineers Do It for the Culture6. Jasmine's StoryThe Engineering School Community 7. Organizational Involvement: Diversity Dilution and Antiblackness8. Informal Relationships: The (Im)Possibility of Peer Collaboration9. Nina's StoryThe Mainstream Wsu Community 10. Negotiating Racism: Is Mainstream Campus Life for White Students?11. Martin's Story12. Sociology and the Blues of Campus LifeAppendixNotesReferencesIndex

"…Tichavakunda does an excellent job with taking the reader deep into these different social worlds and helping us to understand the associated realities embodied in these worlds and for these students. The recommendations that are offered in this book aid in making the case for why higher education must devote more attention to the needs and specificity of Black students." — Science Education"Without question, this book appeals to higher education administrators, staff, faculty, and people doing diversity, equity, and inclusion work. In the classroom, Black Campus Life is equally valuable … This book has the opportunity to fulfill what I believe to be among the author's primary goals: to add depth and breadth to narratives about Black student experiences on historically white campuses and to extend readers' understandings of Blackness and Black life beyond that of a plight against racism." — Deborwah Faulk, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity"Tichavakunda effortlessly interweaves theory and empirical research, using interviews, archival documents, and institutional data to paint a rich picture of student life. Black students are depicted multidimensionally, as whole persons, not just the sum of their identities." — Crystal Renée Chambers, author of Law and Social Justice in Higher Education