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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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Online eBook. Access restricted to current Rider University students, faculty, and staff.
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 288 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
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.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
Summary In the 1960s, increasing numbers of African American students entered predominantly white colleges and universities in northern and western USA. This work focuses on the women of this pioneering generation, examining their educational strategies and experiences.
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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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Higginbotham, Elizabeth. Too much to ask. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2001 0807826626 (DLC) 2001027543 (OCoLC)46685217
ISBN 0807875279 (electronic book)
9780807875278 (electronic book)
9780807826621 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0807826626 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780807849897 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0807849898 (paperback ; alkaline paper)

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