Facing_Stereotypes

Facing Stereotypes Facing Stereotypes: A Case Study of Black Students on a White Campus This study about racial stereotypes allows society to better understand how black students cope with stereotypical judgments by others, preconceived notions of their intelligence and their ability to succeed in college, especially predominately white institutions. Stereotypes are defined as widely held beliefs that people have certain characteristics because of their membership in a particular group (Weiten & Lloyd, 2003). This study “Facing Stereotypes: A Case Study of Black Students on a White Campus” focuses on African Americans and their role as a minority in a predominantly white environment, i.e. the college campus. The study consisted of focus groups and selected individual interviews with academically successful black students. During the interviews, the subjects spoke about stereotypical situations they had faced and how they dealt with them during their academic careers. Stereotyping can be either positive or negative. In this study, the African American students were being stereotyped negatively and perceived as intellectually inferior. Due to such assumptions, black students conveyed feelings of abandonment and isolation from campus and college life. As students, they encountered a number of difficulties stemming from such students, study, black, stereotypes, experiences, academic, campus, african, white, stereotyping, college, about, social, groups, group, research, article, americans, american, two, right, racial, questions, pwi, personal, learned, individual, facing, ethnic, environment, case, better, believe, being, understand