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In the face of inequality : how Black colleges adapt
Record details
- ISBN: 1438456913
- ISBN: 9781438456911
- ISBN: 1438456921
- ISBN: 9781438456928
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Physical Description:
1 online resource
remote - Publisher: ©2015
- Copyright: ©2015
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | List of Figures and Tables -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- How Inequality Influences Black College Adaptation -- Plan of the Book -- Conclusion -- 1. The Black Higher Education Field -- Field Creation and Expansion, 1854-1895 -- Separate but Equal, 1896-1944 -- Civil Rights, 1945-1975 -- Questioning Black Colleges, 1976-1999 -- Conclusion -- 2. Collective Action and Status Inequality -- Status Distinctions as a Field- Level Process -- Quantifying Foundation Preferences and Elaborating the Status System -- Were the "Colleges" Actually Colleges? -- Were the Colleges the Right Size? -- Were the Colleges Financially Fit? -- Did the Colleges Have the Right Leadership? -- Learning from the Nonaffiliates -- Talladega College -- Wilberforce University -- Meharry Medical College -- Conclusion -- 3. Advocacy and Racial Inequality -- Education as Uplift -- Black College Graduates -- Black Colleges and the American Experience -- Racial Inequality and Financing Black Education -- Conclusion -- 4. Adapting to a World without State-Sanctioned Racial Inequality -- Institutional Logics, Desegregation, and Black Colleges -- Conclusion -- 5. Building Legitimacy amid Inequality -- The Historical Relationship between Black and Traditionally White Colleges -- The Field of Actors -- Students and Labor Markets -- Foundations -- The Southern States -- Earned Degrees at Black and Traditionally White Colleges in the Last Decades of the Twentieth Century -- Conclusion -- 6. The Story of Organizational Adaptation -- Black Colleges: One of Many Stigmatized Organizational Actors -- Appendix 1: Population of Black Colleges and Universities -- Appendix 2: UNCF Membership and Organizational Meetings -- Organizational Data -- Analyses -- Appendix 3: Frame Analyses -- Appendix 4: Earned Degree Data -- Statistical Technique -- Notes. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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| Subject: | African American universities and colleges African Americans -- Education (Higher) EDUCATION -- Higher African American universities and colleges African Americans -- Education (Higher) |
| Genre: | Electronic books. |
