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This chapter focuses on what college life was like for these participants. In their interviews, they spoke extensively about their academic and social lives at college, revealing stark differences related to gender. Both Black men and Black women shared narratives of influential faculty, challenges and successes with classes, deep and lasting friendships, participation in academic and civic service groups, and off-campus excursions. Yet, access to intercollegiate athletics, social clubs, and opportunities for interracial dating significantly differentiated the ways that Black women and Black men experienced their campuses.
The six narratives in this chapter reflect the typical academic, extracurricular, and social lives of the participants and the issues which they confronted and are shared at greater length because of the number and depth of issues covered and the participants’ own insights into their experiences.
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Stewart, DL. (2017). College Life. In: Black Collegians’ Experiences in US Northern Private Colleges. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59077-0_6
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