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By Derrick R. Brooms

Explores how race and gender subject on campus and the way Black men navigate university for tutorial and private success.

This paintings marks a thorough shift clear of the pervasive specialize in the demanding situations that Black male scholars face and the deficit rhetoric that regularly limits views approximately them. in its place, Derrick R. Brooms bargains reflective counter-narratives of luck. Being Black, Being Male on Campus makes use of in-depth interviews to enquire the collegiate studies of Black male scholars at traditionally White associations. Framed via serious Race conception and Blackmaleness, the examine offers new research at the software and value of Black Male tasks (BMIs). This paintings explores Black men’s perceptions, id structures, and targets, whereas it speaks meaningfully to how race and gender intersect as they effect scholars’ experiences.

Derrick R. Brooms is Assistant Professor of Sociology on the collage of Louisville.

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