ABSTRACT
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with black students and parents concerning their experiences with one state university, as well as published and unpublished studies of the black experience at state universities at large, this study captures the painful choices and agonizing dilemmas at the heart of the decisions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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |20 pages
Black Students at Predominantly White Colleges and Universities
The Rhetoric and the Reality
chapter |28 pages
Educational Choices and a University's Reputation
The Importance of Collective Memory
chapter |22 pages
Issues of Recruitment and Retention
“If they do Anything, It's to Encourage you to Leave”
