Black space : negotiating race, diversity, and belonging in the ivory tower
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Black space : negotiating race, diversity, and belonging in the ivory tower
（The American campus / Harold S. Wechsler, series editor）
Rutgers University Press, c2022
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-174) and index
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Description
Protests against racial injustice and anti-Blackness have swept across elite colleges and universities in recent years, exposing systemic racism and raising questions about what it means for Black students to belong at these institutions. In Black Space, Sherry L. Deckman takes us into the lives of the members of the Kuumba Singers, a Black student organization at Harvard with racially diverse members, and a self-proclaimed safe space for anyone but particularly Black students. Uniquely focusing on Black students in an elite space where they are the majority, Deckman provides a case study in how colleges and universities might reimagine safe spaces. Through rich description and sharing moments in students’ everyday lives, Deckman demonstrates the possibilities and challenges Black students face as they navigate campus culture and the refuge they find in this organization. This work illuminates ways administrators, faculty, student affairs staff, and indeed, students themselves, might productively address issues of difference and anti-Blackness for the purpose of fostering critically inclusive campus environments.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Richard J. Reddick
Introduction: How Do You Lift Every Voice?
Prelude: (Un)Safe Space and Racial Diversity in the Ivory Tower
Verse I: Being Black
Verse II: Staying Black
Bridge: Non-Black Members in the Black Choir
Chorus: Learning to Care
Coda: Lessons from the Safe Black Space
Appendix A: Interview Participants
Appendix B: Note on Methods
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
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