Overcoming the odds : raising academically successful African American young women /

Overcoming the odds : raising academically successful African American young women /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Description:1 online resource (xvi, 272 pages)
Language:English
Subject:
Academic achievement -- United States.
African American women -- Education.
African American women -- Family relationships.
Education -- Parent participation -- United States.
Academic achievement.
African American women -- Education.
Education -- Parent participation.
United States.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11218463
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Other authors / contributors:Hrabowski, Freeman A.
ISBN:9780198029205
0198029209
1280655011
9781280655012
0195126424
9780195126426
0195302060
9780195302066
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-265) and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:Despite many obstacles, some African-American women are performing at exceptional levels academically. This interview-based book provides information about how and why they have succeeded - what motivates these women and how their backgrounds and family relationships have shaped them.
Other form:Print version: Overcoming the odds. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2002 0195126424

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