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The Agony of Education

Book Review: The Agony of Education

January 21, 2014 by Bob Trube 2 Comments

The Agony of Education: Black Students at a White University by Joe R. Feagin,  Hernan Vera, and  Nikitah Imani (Taylor & Francis, 1996)  is a hard book to read. I noted that it has a 1996 copyright and has probably sat on my "unread books" pile for the best part of a decade. The book chronicles the struggles of black students at a predominantly white, large State University that is not identified. The big question for me in reading this book is whether to accept the "racialized society" approach in analyzing the … [Read more...] about Book Review: The Agony of Education

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