Tag: Black Colleges

Melissa Wooten, University of Massachusetts Amherst – Are Black Colleges Necessary

Dec 21, 2015

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Academic Minute

in Education, Sociology

Black colleges are doing great things for their students, so why does a negative view persist? Melissa Wooten, associate professor of sociology at UMass Amherst, explores this question. Melissa E. Wooten is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She studies how the structure of race and racism influences organizational development.…