| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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Book Review

Too Much to Ask: Black Women in the Era of Integration. By Elizabeth Higginbotham. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. xiv, 288 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2662-6. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4989-8.)

In an attempt to understand what it meant to be a pioneer in a time of shifting racial dynamics, the sociologist Elizabeth Higginbotham traced the academic careers of 56 black women who graduated from predominantly white colleges in the late 1960s. The women attended 9 colleges in a single city and were among the first major wave of black students in predominantly white colleges in the 1960s. They came from different regions as well as from different social classes. Some, from the South, had graduated from segregated high schools, while others grew up in the North in overwhelmingly white suburban communities. Drawing on a project that spanned twenty years, Higginbotham concludes that race, class, and gender were all central to the women's expectations of themselves as well as to others' perceptions of them, and that the women faced constant difficulties as they struggled to adapt to an often hostile white environment. . . .

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