hisannabelle
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Joined: 12/3/2006 From: Tallahassee, FL, USA Status: offline
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greetings griswold, hbcus, as have been pointed out time and again, are not all black colleges. they are historically black colleges. there is a difference. as i mentioned before, they (to me) are no different than historically women's colleges (like the one i attend) that now accept men and have male members. hbcus accept white students and many have white faculty members. any college or university that's existed longer than the last 40-100 years is historically white and historically male by definition, which is why there aren't any self-proclaimed historically white or historically male colleges. it's pretty much an accepted fact. just like hbcus and historically women's colleges, historically white and historically male colleges also now accept other races and the opposite gender. pretty much, it has to do with the culture you came out of. historically white/male colleges came out of a desire to educate white males at a time when religious institutions were pretty much the only place this happened. historically black colleges were started when black people couldn't get an education at historically white colleges. historically women's colleges were started when women couldn't get an education at historically male colleges. in that time, we've come at least a few steps in the direction of equality, and now most colleges accept students of all race and gender. the reason hbcus and historically women's colleges are more publicized as such has to do, in part, because they are a more recent development, because issues with everybody not having access to education still exist, and the fact that they exist as historically black/women's is a testament to dealing with such harsh issues in education (which are not always limited to race or gender but often social status, wealth, etc.) annabelle.
< Message edited by hisannabelle -- 4/6/2007 11:12:20 PM >
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