The Agony of Education: Black Students at a White University

By Joe R. Feagin, Hernan Vera, Nikitah Imani

Book Overview

The Agony of Education is about the life experience of African American students attending a historically white university. Based on seventy-seven interviews conducted with black students and parents concerning their experiences with one state university, as well as published and unpublished studies of the black experience at state universities at large, this study captures the painful choices and agonizing dilemmas at the heart of the decisions African Americans must make about higher education.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415915120
• ISBN13: 9780415915120
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Thanks so much for your insight on this subject. I am a black college student and I am at a college where the ratio of blacks to whites is probably 1/50. Our college is small and the population of students is estimated to be 2500. In this case most of the blacks are on one of the sports teams. Where are no cultural diverse classes here for anyone here to take. This year we got a new program called Cultural Anthropology. I feel that it is necessary for everyone not just African-Americans to take a cultural diverse class to learn more about someone of another race or creed. I feel that as far as we have come as a society there are still some things we have yet to accomplish. Being the only Black in most of my classes I feel it is necessary for everyone to understand and comprehend how someone else feels and understand there history and why they, if they do, feel the way they do about certain subjects. Students, I feel, would love to learn about their history and why not put those same feelngs into learning about someone elses.