Date of Award
5-2022
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
College/School
College of Education and Human Services
Department/Program
Family Science and Human Development
Thesis Sponsor/Dissertation Chair/Project Chair
Pearl Stewart
Committee Member
Kathryn Herr
Committee Member
Sharon Boyd-Jackson
Committee Member
Sandra Lewis
Abstract
Using qualitative methodology, 10 Black, first-generation female college students were studied at Predominately White Institution in Northern New Jersey. The study examined how Black, female, first-generation college students combined the diverging aspects of their home and school lives and the strategies they used to do so. The theoretical perspectives used in this study were Black Feminist and Life Course Theory. Combining these theoretical perspectives revealed how Black women used agency and linked lives to navigate college and renegotiate family and societal expectations. Analysis of 10 individual ethnographic interviews highlighted two major themes and several sub-themes. The major themes were: 1) reciprocity and 2) the art of navigation between home and school. This work has implications for future research on first-generation Black women and the use of reciprocity as a motivating factor for attending and completing college.
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Recommended Citation
Turner, Fatimah, "For the Culture : Using Ethnographic Interviews to Describe the Attempts and Strategies Used by Black, First-Generation, Female, College Students to Combine Family, Community, and College Life" (2022). Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects. 1069.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/etd/1069