The Agony of Education: Black Students at a White University

The Agony of Education is about the life experience of African American students attending a historically white university. Based on seventy-seven interviews conducted with black students and parents concerning their experiences with one state university, as well as published and unpublished studies of the black experience at state universities at large, this study captures the painful choices and agonizing dilemmas at the heart of the decisions African Americans must make about higher education.


Author: Joe R. Feagin, Hernan Vera, Nikitah Imani
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 04/30/1996
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.97h x 5.98w x 0.46d
ISBN: 9780415915120

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/01/1996 pg. 67
Booklist 05/01/1996 pg. 1475

About the Author

Sociology at the University of Florida. Hernán Vera is Professor of Sociology at the University of Florida. Feagin and Vera are the coauthors of White Racism.IkitahO. Imani is Assistant Professor of Sociology at James Madison University.