Ethnicity Matters: Rethinking How Black, Hispanic, and Indian Students Prepare for and Succeed in College (Adolescent Cultures, School, and Society) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820476021 ISBN 13: 9780820476025

Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2006

Synopsis

Ethnicity Matters – Rethinking How Black, Hispanic, and Indian Students Prepare for and Succeed in College focuses on four model programs that are highly effective in preparing students from underrepresented groups for college and in supporting these students through baccalaureate degree completion. The four model programs serve students from those ethnic groups that face the most serious problems of underrepresentation in American higher education – African Americans, Latinos, and American Indians. What sets these four programs apart from most other minority college recruitment and retention efforts is that they are built on this premise: Ethnic identity plays an empowering role in educational achievement.

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About the Author

The Editor: MaryJo Benton Lee holds a Ph.D. in sociology from South Dakota State University, where she is Diversity Coordinator for the College of Engineering. She is the co-founder and coordinator of the SDSU-Flandreau Indian School Success Academy, an early and intensive college preparatory program that serves two hundred and fifty American Indian high school students. She is the author of Ethnicity, Education and Empowerment: How Minority Students in Southwest China Construct Identities (2001). She has written numerous articles and papers on issues relating to race and ethnicity, sociology of education, and Asian studies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820476021
• ISBN 13: 9780820476025
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Maryjo Benton Lee