"Facing Stereotypes: A case study of black students on a white campus" was conducted. It consisted of focus groups and selected individual interviews with fifteen academically successful black students who talked about what and how they deal with stereotyping among their ethic group.

Stereotyping can be either positive or negative however, in this situation the blacks are being stereotyped of negative expectations and perceived as intellectually inferior. Due to such assumptions, black students feel abandoned and isolated from the campus and the college life. As students they encounter a number of problems at college. They experience r

In order to provide and insure rich examples and information regarding their academic and social experiences on the campus the study used purposeful sampling methods. The research team used qualitative research methods in order to provide the best approach for gaining access to the personal experiences of the students. Two members of the research team were present at each focus groups and individual meetings. One researcher would take notes and the other asked open-ended questions to the students. They then took the data to analyze it and emerged with the basic theme that indeed the black students faced stereotypes that eroded their academic sense of self.

Which brings me to why I chose this article. The topic "stereotypes" is not related to my major but I think it is very interesting. I am a white student who sees all types of stereotyping around campus. It's not just with the blacks. However, I do agree that the blacks get stereotyped a lot more than the minarets of the college. But that doesn't mean that the blacks do not stereotype others either. This article is very biases on the fact that it pointed fingers to the white population only.

Major ides arose from the study such as, comments from non-blacks about the black community, the process in which blacks have to go through to validate their intellectual competence in the classroom and having to deal with very personal stereotypes a

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