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Author Higginbotham, Elizabeth.

Title Too much to ask : Black women in the era of integration / Elizabeth Higginbotham.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2001]
©2001

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  LC2781 .H545 2001    Available  ---
Description xiv, 288 pages ; 24 cm.
Series Gender & American culture
Gender & American culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-275) and index.
Contents The women and the era -- Family social class background -- What money can buy : Social class differences in housing and educational options -- The ties that bind : Socialized for survival -- Public high schools : surviving or thriving -- Elite high schools : The cost of advantages -- Adult-sponsored and child-secured mobility -- College : Expectations and reality -- Survival strategies in college -- Struggling to build a satisfying life in a racist society.
Subject African American women -- Education (Higher) -- Longitudinal studies.
African American women -- Education (Higher)
Genre/Form Longitudinal studies.
Subject African American women.
African American women -- Social conditions -- Longitudinal studies.
African American women -- Social conditions.
African American college students -- Longitudinal studies.
African American college students.
College integration -- United States.
College integration.
United States.
Educational surveys -- United States.
Educational surveys.
Vrouwen.
Negers.
Studenten.
ISBN 0807826626 cloth alkaline paper
9780807826621 cloth alkaline paper
0807849898 paperback
9780807849897 paperback