Racism, Black College Students' Mental Health, and the Efficacy of Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives: A Case Study
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Racism, Black College Students' Mental Health, and the Efficacy of Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives: A Case Study
Yazar:
Lewis, Kaleea R., author.
ISBN:
9780438112094
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1 electronic resource (184 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-11(E), Section: B.
Advisors: Emily S. Mann Committee members: Jason L. Cummings; Chester S. Platt; Payal Shah; Katrina M. Walsemann.
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Despite the increase in access to higher education, African Americans remain disproportionately underrepresented among those with college degrees. Over 50% of African American students enrolled in a 4-year college or university do not graduate, compared to 33% of White students (Museus & Quaye, 2009). Research demonstrates that the lower persistence and completion rates for African American students is significantly influenced by their exposure to indirect and direct forms of racism (Iacovino & James, 2016; Johnson, Wasserman, Yildirim, & Yonai, 2014; McClain & Perry, 2017). These daily experiences of prejudice, discriminatory behaviors, marginalization, and overt racism can have an adverse impact on their mental health. This study investigates the relationship between experiences of racism and the mental health of African American college students attending a PWI with widely circulated diversity and inclusion initiatives.
A qualitative case study approach guided this research study. Mixed qualitative methods, including individual, in-depth interviews and focus groups, were employed to explore the complex interplay of factors that shaped the lived experiences and mental health of African American students, particularly as these related to the persistence of racism on college campuses and institutional efforts to promote diversity and inclusion. Individual, in-depths interviews and focus groups were conducted with a convenience sample of African American college students (ages 18-24) at a PWI in the southeastern United States.
The in-depth interview and focus group data were analyzed using a combination of analytical strategies including critical race methodology and a modified approach to grounded theory (GT). Qualitative analysis of participants' narratives revealed experiences with everyday racial discrimination in the form of overt racism, racial microaggressions, and inequitable treatment by faculty and staff. The combination of such repeated experiences contributed to overall feelings of anger, loneliness, social isolation, and invisibility in participants' narratives of their subjective sense of well-being. The narratives and first-hand accounts drawn from the students who participated in the focus groups illustrate how their university's superficial, or surface level, approach to diversity and inclusion created an environment that was palatable to those in power while oppressive to students of color. The findings from this study illustrate the ways in which racial privilege (White supremacy) undergirds the university's implementation of the diversity and inclusion initiatives. The manner in which the diversity and inclusion initiatives were conceptualized and articulated did not require an analysis of the institutionalized Whiteness prevalent in the structures and practices of the university which, as the students voiced, benefited Whites while marginalizing the Black students.
The ways in which African American college students make sense of their experiences with racism on campus in relation to their mental health directs attention to the importance of expanding efforts to improve the racial campus climate at PWIs. Placing the perspective of African American students at the center of inquiry allows for the development of a more nuanced understanding of the enduring discrimination that African American students negotiate at PWIs. Such insight can lead to potential strategies not currently in place.
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