ABSTRACT

This chapter details elements of black student culture at Urban College. One dimension of black student culture at the community college is the affirmation of both the idea of teachers and the content of school knowledge. Cocaine, "horse" and especially marijuana are obtained easily at Urban College. Drugs are an important part of campus life and students often "get high" between classes and attend class "stoned." The lived culture of students serves to exacerbate tensions between blacks and whites. Rather than rejecting the idea of teachers or the content of school knowledge, Urban College students criticize teachers only in so far as they do not encourage what students consider a fair transaction. Unquestionably the United States is a racist society and many white students enter Urban College with well-developed prejudices through which their perceptions of blacks are filtered.