Intersectionality and higher education : identity and inequality on college campuses /

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Imprint:New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
Description:vii, 295 pages ; 24 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11906230
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Other authors / contributors:Byrd, W. Carson, editor.
Brunn-Bevel, Rachelle J., editor.
Ovink, Sarah M., editor.
ISBN:9780813597669
0813597668
9780813597676
0813597676
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"Though colleges and universities are arguably paying more attention to diversity and inclusion than ever before, to what extent do their efforts result in more socially just campuses? This book examines how race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, sexual orientation, age, disability, nationality, and other identities connect to produce intersected campus experiences"--
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Intersected Campuses: An Introduction
  • 1. Always Crossing Boundaries, Always Existing in Multiple Bubbles: Intersected Experiences and Positions on College Campuses
  • Part II. Beyond Exams and Parties: Student Identities and Experiences
  • 2. The Contingent Climate: Exploring Student Perspectives at a Racially Diverse Institution
  • 3. More than Immigration Status: Undocumented Students in U.S. Jesuit Higher Education
  • 4. Race-Based Assumptions of Social Class Identity and Their Consequences at a Predominantly White (and Wealthy) Institution
  • 5. Biracial College Students' Racial Identity Work: How Black-White Biracial Students Navigate Racism and Privilege at Historically Black and Historically White Institutions
  • 6. The Still Furious Passage of the Black Graduate Student
  • Part III. Between Research, Teaching, and Service: Faculty Identities and Experiences
  • 7. Faculty Members from Low-Socioeconomic-Status Backgrounds: Student Mentorship, Motivations, and Intersections
  • 8. Doing Less with Less: Faculty Care Work in Times of Precarity
  • 9. Faculty Assessments as Tools of Oppression: A Black Woman's Reflections on Color-Blind Racism in the Academy
  • 10. "Diversity" Goals and Faculty of Color: Supporting Racial Inclusion and Awareness in General Education Courses
  • 11. Pursuing Intersectionality as a Pedagogical Tool in the Higher Education Classroom
  • Part IV. Life Among Paperwork and Bureaucracy: Staff Identities and Experiences
  • 12. Intersecting Identities and Student Affairs Professionals
  • 13. Studying STEM While Black: How institutional Agents Prepare Black Students for the Racial Realities of STEM Environments
  • 14. Exclusion, Perspective Taking, and the Liminal Role of Higher Education Staff in Supporting Students with Disabilities
  • Part V. Intersectionality and Equity Efforts among Campus Communities
  • 15. Making Room for Gendered Possibilities: Using Intersectionality to Discover Transnormative Inequalities in the Women's College Admissions Process
  • 16. Troubling Diversity: An Intersectional Analysis of Diversity Action Plans at U.S. Flagship Universities
  • 17. Tips of Icebergs in the Ocean: Reflections on Future Research for Embracing Intersectionality in Higher Education
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index