By Lee Jones, Cornel West

16 of America's prime students provide an uncompromising critique of the academy from their viewpoint as African American men.They problem dominant majority assumptions in regards to the tradition of upper schooling, so much really its claims of openness to variety and divergent traditions.What is striking concerning the chapters that make up this book--despite the authors' assorted paths to luck, their disparate fields of analysis, and their specified voices–is their virtually unanimous message that greater schooling is inimical to African Americans.They take factor with the procedures that ensure what's legitimized as scholarship, in addition to with who wields the facility to authenticate it. They describe the debilitating pressures to subordinate Black identification to a supposedly common yet hegemonic Eurocentric tradition. They query the academy's valuing of individuality and its privileging of dichotomy over their cultural types of neighborhood, humanism and synthesis. additionally they variety over such matters as culturally mediated forms of cognition, the misuse of standardized trying out, the disproportionate burden of provider put on African American school and a gift process that rate reductions it.Given stature of those authors, and their outspoken message, this publication calls for recognition from leaders and school in predominantly White associations, in addition to from Black students and graduates intending to a profession in larger schooling.

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He received a bachelor’s degree in English from West Chester University (PA). 14 2 THE DATA SPEAK NO REST FOR THE WEARY William B. Harvey Several years ago I was attending a major academic conference where a highly regarded, nationally known researcher was providing his analysis of the status of African American students in colleges and universities. He presented a litany of his concerns, ranging from lack of participation in campus extracurricular activities, to “self-segregation” in campus housing, to low graduation rates.

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