Positive campus racial climate is vital for Black students' success, while negative climate remains detrimental to students of color in predominantly White schools¶
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q2 i? Positive campus racial climate is vital for Black students' success, and negative campus racial climate is detrimental to the academic success of students of color in predominantly White schools. → Evelyn Ezikwelu 2020
Evidence¶
Evelyn Ezikwelu 2020¶
Evelyn Ezikwelu. (2020). Institutional Racism and Campus Racial Climate: Struggles for Sense of Belonging Among Black Students in K-12 Public Schools. Journal of Critical Thought and Praxis, 10(1). https://www.iastatedigitalpress.com/jctp/
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Narrative literature review of peer-reviewed articles from 1990 to 2020 synthesizing campus racial climate research. The review reports that "positive campus racial climate is vital for the success of the Black students" while negative climate harms students of color academically; no effect sizes are printed.
"Research continues to show that positive campus racial climate is vital for the success of the Black students (Smith, 2004), and the negative campus racial climate remains detrimental to the academic success of students of color in predominantly White schools"
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- Black students experience a more hostile campus racial climate than other students of color in schools
- A welcoming campus racial climate fosters African American students' sense of belonging and intent to continue enrollment in mostly White schools — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
- White teachers' deficit thinking about Black students produces a negative campus racial climate and unfriendly teacher-student relationships — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
- Racism has negative psychological implications for Black students' sense of belonging, self-identity, and academic success in schools — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
- Campus symbols such as antebellum architecture signal belonging to White and high-SES students and unwelcomeness to marginalized students — related
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Positive campus racial climate is vital for Black students' success, while negative climate remains detrimental to students of color in predominantly White schools |
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Positive campus racial climate is vital for Black students' success, while negative climate remains detrimental to students of color in predominantly White schools |
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2020 |
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2025 |
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by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-16 |
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1 — evelyn-ezikwelu-2020 |
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