How Black Students Cope with Racism on White Campuses

MOST ASSESSMENTS OF the state of African-American students in predominantly white colleges and universities have relied heavily on numbers, such as enrollment rates, grade point averages, and graduation rates. Yet a deeper examination of the experiences of black students in these places requires something more than numbers gathered in school records and surveys or in classroom testing. We need to listen closely to what black American students tell us about what happens to them and how they feel, act, and think.