Debating Disadvantage: Self-Concept, the Civil Rights Movement and Pre-College Programmes in the United States in the 1960s

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Educational History; Economically Disadvantaged; Self Concept; Civil Rights; Activism; Low Income Students; African American Students; High School Students; Social Justice; Racial Bias; Racial Relations; Race

10.1080/0046760X.2021.1924878

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In the early 1960s, colleges and universities in the United States launched dozens of new pre-college programmes for low-income and predominantly African American high school students. Many of these initiatives were inspired by the civil rights movement. Moved by the sit-ins, marches and boycotts that had riveted the nation, a range of educators -- mostly university professors and administrators -- created new programmes to help students ill-served by school systems marked by racism and inequality. Many of the leaders of these initiatives hoped not only to support particular students but also to make the United States a more just and equal society and to change the university by opening the door to a more diverse student body. Nevertheless, most pre-college programmes operated under a flawed conception of disadvantage that individualised the 'disadvantaged student' and thus disconnected African American young people from the histories and contemporary struggles of their communities.

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