The Black College Mystique (review)
(Gasman, Baez, & Turner, in press). This book provides an excellent model for the next logical study: students of color at nonselective four-year colleges. After reading the book, I am left with the questions similar to those I usually ask when studying college students. Here I ask: What do these elite schools do to help the students that they bring to campus? Are there differences across institutions in the ways that arriving students are brought into the community of scholars that exists at the campus? Do some of the schools capitalize more than others on the unique strength of the students? And finally, the most obvious question: How did these students differ from students at other kinds of college campuses? Maybe the answers to these questions will help all institutions move beyond “sinking or swimming.”