A Hard Year Downstate: A Student Ethnography of Race and the University
A co-authored book by nine people, A Hard Year Downstate: A Student Ethnography of Race and the University is the extension of a partner project with The Ethnography of the University. The book is the result of the Ethnography of the Brown v. Board of Education Jubilee Commemoration, which was commissioned by the campus committee charged with organizing events to observe the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision’s fiftieth anniversary. Fieldwork and analysis for the project have focused on the committee’s intention to foster (with the Chancellor’s and Provost’s encouragement) campus-wide dialogues on race and diversity at the university. A ten-person research team—four undergraduates, two graduate students, and four faculty—submitted their 170-page report to the organizing committee’s chairs in November 2004.
Nancy Abelmann, Mark Aber, Rene Bangert, Paul Davis, Bill Kelleher, Peter Mortensen, Nicole Ortegón, Teresa Ramos, and Amy Wan