Examining African Transnational Students' Experiences of Anti-Black Racism(s) at Predominantly White Institutions in the Midwest

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session 7
  In Roundtable Session: Black Immigrant Experiences in the United States

Abstract

This constructivist grounded theory analysis explores the intersectional experiences of African-born students as they seek to survive and thrive within a higher education system that is fraught with historic ties to the transatlantic slave trade and the legacy of racial capitalism in the United States. Preliminary findings suggest that PWIs engage in silencing or avoidance with regard to orienting Black, African students to the current campus racial climate—even while these same institutions are publicly espousing renewed investment in antiracist initiatives. This project reveals some of the complexities of anti-Black racism(s) at PWIs by listening to African students who experience a PWI through intersecting lenses of race, culture, religion, ethnicity, class, gender, and additional dimensions of their biographies and heritages.

Author

• Eileen Boswell, University of Nebraska - Lincoln