The Privileged Rural: The College Experiences of Rural African Americans
African American Rural Education
ISBN: 978-1-83909-871-0, eISBN: 978-1-83909-870-3
Publication date: 9 November 2020
Abstract
Burgeoning research indicates that career and postsecondary educational aspirations are salient among rural African American high school students. Yet, factors and processes that lead to their success as college students remain unclear, despite accumulating evidence suggesting the need to understand these students' college experiences. The dearth of scholarship elucidating the postsecondary experiences of African American students from rural backgrounds is particularly striking given the extensive research about the college experiences of African American students from urban and suburban locales. This chapter, grounded in W.E.B. Du Bois's Double Consciousness theory and qualitative in nature, focuses on the college experiences of rural African Americans who successfully operated simultaneously within White and Black communities in postsecondary educational settings.
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Citation
Flowers, J.H. (2020), "The Privileged Rural: The College Experiences of Rural African Americans", Chambers, C.R. and Crumb, L. (Ed.) African American Rural Education (Advances in Race and Ethnicity in Education, Vol. 7), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 87-102. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2051-231720200000007007
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:Emerald Publishing Limited
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