"Keep Pushing": Black Undergraduate Men Navigating Historically White Institutions to Persist in Science Degree Programs

• In Event: Black Counter-Spaces, Resistance, Bonding, and Belonging

Abstract

Drawing upon a critical, asset-based framework, Community Cultural Wealth (Yosso, 2005), our research team explores the assets, resources, and networks Black undergraduate men use to support their persistence in science degree programs. For this study, our team is guided by case study and a participatory action research approach. We collected data from 17 Black undergraduate men in science across three historically white institutions. Our team collected data via two semi-structured interviews and participant-generated photographs from each participant. A key finding from our study is that institutional context and culture are shaping how the Black men in this study are using their assets, resources, and networks to persist in their science degree programs.

Authors

• Darris Roshawn Means, University of Pittsburgh
  Presenting Author

• Julie Dangremond Stanton, University of Georgia
  Non-Presenting Author

• Morgan Beckham, University of Georgia
  Presenting Author

• Kennedi Clemons, University of Georgia
  Presenting Author

• Mikayla Imani Frierson, University of Georgia
  Presenting Author

• Osaruese C Idehen, University of Georgia
  Non-Presenting Author

• Hayliegh Rose, University of Georgia - Athens
  Presenting Author

• Roshaunda L. Breeden, East Carolina University
  Presenting Author

• Brandon Marshall, University of Georgia
  Non-Presenting Author