People, Place, and Connections
Black Cultural Center Staff as Facilitators of Social Capital
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18969249 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Liane I Hypolite (0000-0002-6775-2552, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 37-59 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Black Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9347 • E-ISSN: 1552-4566 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0021934719892238 |
| OpenAlex | W2995331949 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 34 |
Black cultural centers (BCCs) have served students on college campuses across the country for over 50 years, but empirical research about the benefits they offer Black students, beyond examples referenced in the conceptual and historical literature, remains limited. As the relevance of BCCs has come into question given financial constraints, more diverse student bodies, and a shift to discontinuing race-specific cultural centers in favor of multicultural centers, rigorous studies about their contributions are needed. Through an ethnographic approach, this investigation explores how a BCC site and its staff act as institutional, cultural, and entrepreneurial agents by facilitating the development of social capital among Black undergraduate students. They do this by (a) serving as conduits for campus services that struggle to reach Black undergraduate students, (b) strategically coordinating resources and relationships among Black organizations to meet the needs of the Black community, and (c) collaborating with peer cultural/identity centers to streamline efforts
Cultural capital · Ethnography · Identity (music) · Intersectionality · Multiculturalism · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Race (biology) · Relevance (law) · Social capital · Social science · Sociology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Higher Education Research Studies · Mentoring and Academic Development
Black Campus Life
Black Placemaking and Rebuilding Community through a Black Resource Center
Supporting Under Restriction
“We Can Redefine Ourselves”
We're drawn to this place”
Social capital as mediating factor on Covid‐19 induced psychological distress
Our Community Is So Small”
Your Blackness Is Your Own Thing”
We're Expected to Be Homogenous
Covid-19 and Social Capital Loss
Getting Smart
"It Takes a Village to Raise a Child"
Nine themes in campus racial climates and implications for institutional transformation
Qualitative Research Traditions
Member Checking With Older Women
Institutional Entrepreneurship in Emerging Fields
Equality of educational opportunity
Black Culture Centers
Study Design in Qualitative Research2
Applications of Social Capital in Educational Literature
Toward a Field of Intersectionality Studies
Defining diversity
A matter of scale
Researching teachers working with young adolescents
Using ethnography to understand twenty-first century college life
Avoiding Traps in Member Checking
The Historically Black College as Social Contract, Social Capital, and Social Equalizer
Historically White Universities and Plantation Politics
Access and Equity for African American Students in Higher Education
The Campus Racial Climate
Exploring the For-Profit Experience
Mapping the Margins
Institutional Entrepreneurship as Embedded Agency
The Constant Comparative Method of Qualitative Analysis
Regimes of Trustworthiness in Qualitative Research
A Social Capital Framework for the Study of Institutional Agents and Their Role in the Empowerment of Low-Status Students and Youth
Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,25 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |