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- Title
A DREAM DEFERRED: THE EXPERIENCE OF AN AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDENT IN A DOCTORAL PROGRAM IN SCIENCE.
- Authors
Green, André M.
- Abstract
In this article, the author examines the experience of an African American student in a doctoral program in science. The author attempts to encourage African American students and other students in scientific fields not to give up, by providing them with information that can prove to be useful for effectively confronting the negative stereotypes they may face within the halls of higher education that distribute assertions of inadequacy and also declarations of entitlement. He sheds light on this climate, the infrastructure that exists, and to show that this infrastructure is a major contributor to the lack of participation by African Americans in scientific field.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SCIENCE education; AFRICAN American college students; DOCTORAL programs; DOCTORAL students; HIGHER education
- Publication
Education, 2008, Vol 128, Issue 3, p339
- ISSN
0013-1172
- Publication type
Article