What Happens When Students Are in the Minority

Charles B. Hutchison

doi:10.5771/9781607093961

Summary

When people find themselves as the minorities in different situations, they often feel as if they have been placed onstage with a spotlight on them. Consequently, they become prisoners of anxiety, and engage in certain predictable, negative behaviors. Owing to sheer anxiety and mental overload, these situational minorities often find themselves behaving unintelligently. This book uses real-life experiences of diverse people to illustrate that, if not understood and addressed, situational minorities at school or work are unlikely to perform at their highest potentials. This book is for anyone who wants to understand human behavior and performance: why minorities struggle in majority schools, or why the only male or female on the team has to overcome a mental barrier in order to catch up.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2009
ISBN-Print: 978-1-60709-394-7
ISBN-Online: 978-1-60709-396-1
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 242
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Preface No access
1. Introduction. The “Minority Effect” as a Human Phenomenon and Its Educational Implications No access
1. Chapter 01. My Dark Curly Thick Hair Was a Nemesis as All I Wanted Was the Blond Straight Hair Parted Down the Middle, and Romeo: A Misunderstood Student No access
2. Chapter 02. Black and Female in an All-White and Male Math Class, and Mercy’s Dilemma No access
3. Chapter 03. Is There a Minority in the House? Why I Dropped Out of College the First Time Around, and Victimized Jones No access
4. Chapter 04. Seeing My Student at an All-White Church Saved My Day, and the Double Lives and Social Consciousness of My White Students No access
5. chapter 05. Experiencing the White Church, A Cross-Cultural Wedding Experience, and A New Angela: A Bicultural Personality No access
6. Chapter 06. A Black Female in a Predominantly White Male Class, and Reversing Roles: A White Student Acting the Minority in Class No access
7. Chapter 07. Self-Conscious at Pleasant Greens, and Minding Mandy, the White Minority in Class No access
8. Chapter 08. I Felt Like Everybody Else in the Church, and It Only Took One Person to Help Me, and Biracial and Double Minority No access
1. Chapter 09. Comparing Experiencing the Minority Exercise to a War Zone Experience: A Soldier’s Reflection, and Breaking Out in Cold Sweat in All-Women’s Company No access
2. Chapter 10. I Already Felt Unwelcome, and . . . This Feeling Was Completely Inside My Head, and Stuttering at a Staff Meeting No access
3. Chapter 11. Getting a “Good Seat” at Granite, and A Different Worldview, a Different Life No access
4. Chapter 12. Experiencing the Minority at a Hip-Hop Dance Class, and A Good-Kid-Turned-Bad: Surviving Black History Month No access
5. Chapter 13. A German’s Visit to a Latino Church, and German Sensibilities at a Super Bowl Party No access
6. Chapter 14. Understanding My Students at Church, and Finding My Feet at My In-Laws’ No access
7. Chapter 15. Experiencing the Minority as the Only White in Church, the Only Woman in Corporate Meetings, and as a Denominational Minority No access
8. Chapter 16. Experiencing the Minority at a Black Church, Fitting in as a Reverse Minority in School, and Thinking Religion “Outside the Box” No access
9. Chapter 17. Surviving in Church, and Understanding the Minority through Interracial Marriage No access
10. Chapter 18. Differences on a Common Ground, and the Only Guy at an All-Girls Party No access
11. Chapter 19. A White Female in the Class on the African Experience, North-South Linguistic Dichotomy, and Thinking about Marcus No access
1. Chapter 20. It’s Eleven Thirty at Night, and Da Club Is Jumpin’ No access
2. Chapter 21. I Fit in Perfectly with the Corporate Environment . . .Except for My Accent No access
3. Chapter 22. The Few White Girls in the Dance Hall No access
4. Chapter 23. A Lone White Female in an All-Black Course No access
5. Chapter 24. A White Guy at a Black Student Union Party No access
6. Chapter 25. Slowly Embracing a Different Taste No access
7. Chapter 26. Surviving in a New School through the School Band, but No Drums, Please! No access
1. Chapter 27. Lessons Learned from My Minority Experience No access
2. Chapter 28. Experiencing the Minority at the Local Restaurant No access
3. Chapter 29. The Minority Experience from the Perspective of Students of African Origin No access
4. Chapter 30. Experiencing the Minority: Overcoming Double Consciousness in the Classroom No access
5. Chapter 31. Comparative Reflections: Lessons Learned about the Minority Experience No access
Bibliography No access Pages 233 - 238
About the Editorand Contributors No access Pages 239 - 242