Too Much to Ask: Black Women in the Era of Integration

In the 1960s, increasing numbers of African American students entered predominantly White colleges and universities in the northern and western United States. Too Much to Ask focuses on the women of this pioneering generation, examining their educational strategies and experiences and exploring how social class, family upbringing, and expectations — their own and others' — prepared them to achieve in an often hostile setting.

Drawing on extensive questionnaires and in-depth interviews with B...