Understanding the Racial Identities of Upwardly Mobile Black College Students

You're invited to join us for SCOPE's Brown Bag Seminar featuring
Professor Camille Z. Charles presenting the talk, "Say it Loud (I’m
Black and I’m Proud)?: Understanding the Racial Identities of Upwardly
Mobile Black College Students." The talk is the first of our 2011-12 series and is free and open to the public.



Professor Charles pushes back on traditional thinking on racial identity
in Black students, which, her research finds, is far more
multidimensional and varied than earlier studies indicated. She will
discuss her latest research, which uses the National Longitudinal Survey
of Freshmen (NLSF) and in-depth interviews with students at two Ivy
League institutions, to discuss racial identity among Black students.
While concluding that racial identity is central to students’
self-concepts, Charles argues that those identities are varied,
influenced by such factors as national origin, generational status, and
racial heritage. Charles will explore these findings and their impact on
student performance in higher education.



The talk is hosted by SCOPE and co-sponsored by The Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality  and the Stanford University School of Education Higher Education Program.



Professor Charles is the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in
the Social Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. She researches
urban inequality, racial attitudes and intergroup relations, racial
residential segregation, minorities in higher education, and racial
identity. She is the author of numerous publications, including Taming the River: Negotiating the Academic, Financial, and Social Currents in Selective Colleges and Universities (co-author; forthcoming, Princeton University Press), Won’t You Be My Neighbor: Race, Class and Residence in Los Angeles (Russell Sage, Fall 2006), and The Source of the River: The Social Origins of Freshmen at America’s Selective Colleges and Universities
(co-author; 2003, Princeton University Press). She also directs the
interdisciplinary Center for Africana Studies. For a full biography, please visit her web page. RSVP>> 

SCOPE's brown bag seminar series brings notable experts to the Stanford community to address issues of educational opportunity, access, equity, and diversity in the United States and internationally.

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please feel free to contact SCOPE Executive Director Carol Campbell.