Why Black People Tend to Shout!: The Experience of Being An African American Graduate Student In A Predominantly White Institution

Authors

Earl Wright II, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Kee-Sha Adams-Parks, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Date of this Version

April 1998

Abstract

“Very often the professional and emotional needs of African American graduate students are not and cannot be met through existing avenues open to white graduate students. Consequently, there is a need for an understanding of the emotional strain that African American graduate students operate under.”