Download or read book The Experiences of Queer Students of Color at Historically White Institutions written by Antonio Duran and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This significant text employs an intersectional analysis and considers the role of queer frameworks to understand the experiences of Queer People of Color at historically white institutions of higher education in the U.S. By presenting data from student interviews and reflection journals, the book explores what it means to hold multiple minoritized identities, and asks how such intersections are navigated, contested, and experienced on college campuses. Exploring both micro- and macro-level mappings of marginalization and power, the text reveals issues including institutional erasure, pervasive whiteness in college and LGBTQ+ communities, and institutionalized racism and heterosexism, and offers in-depth insights into the material, psychological, emotional, and social impacts on queer students of color. Ultimately, the analysis highlights the necessity of employing intersectional frameworks for addressing interlocking systems of oppression and offers recommendations for the integration and support of queer students of color at historically white institutions (HWIs). This monograph will offer invaluable insights for scholars, researchers, and graduate students working in the fields of gender and sexuality, higher education, and issues of educational equity, who wish to realize the potential of intersectionality as an analytic framework for the study of identity and development of affirming educational environments.

Download or read book An Intersectional Grounded Theory Study Examining Identity Exploration for Queer Collegians of Color at Historically White Institutions written by Antonio Alberto Duran and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to understand how Queer Collegians of Color explore and make meaning of their intersecting identities during their time in higher education. With intersectionality as a theoretical framework, this research also examined how axes of oppression at historically white institutions (HWIs) influenced the process of identity exploration for Queer Students of Color. Guided by constructivism and critical theory as its epistemological foundations, this constructivist grounded theory study included the following four research questions: 1) how do Queer Students of Color explore their identities during their time at historically white institutions; 2) how do collegiate experiences play a role in the process of identity exploration for Queer Students of Color at HWIs; 3) how do systems of power influence the process of identity exploration for Queer Students of Color at HWIs; and 4) how do Queer Students of Color at HWIs make meaning of their identities during the process of identity exploration? Twenty participants with differing races, ethnicities, sexualities, and institutional types served as the sample for this research. Data were collected using three intensive interviews to align with constructivist grounded theory methodology. In addition, participants engaged in a reflective journaling activity between their first and second interview. The data gathered in this research project were analyzed using the constant comparative method characteristic of grounded theory methodology. To honor the two epistemological foundations (constructivism and critical theory), data analysis involved two different readings of the transcripts and journals, including one reading that paid specific attention to issues of power and structural inequality. The outcome of this study was an intersectional grounded theory detailing how Queer Collegians of Color explore and make meaning of their intersecting identities during their time at HWIs. The theory centers a simultaneous process of learning and unlearning, referred to as (un)learning, with students learning new ways of understanding their identities and unlearning the oppressive discourses that they had previously internalized about their identities. Students underwent this process of learning and unlearning through four main dimensions: behavioral, cognitive, affective, and social. These four dimensions encapsulated the manners in which students engaged in behaviors, expanded their ideas, encountered significant emotions, and developed connections to a larger social group as they explored their identities. Salient experiences they had during college - academic, extracurricular, social/romantic, and off-campus organizations/study abroad - assisted students in this process of exploration. Importantly, individuals who had connections to spaces where discussions actively took place concerning the intersections of these identities (e.g., Queer People of Color spaces) were more likely to explore their racial and sexual identity in an interconnected fashion. As collegians navigated their environments, these individuals began to unlearn negative messages rooted in systems of power through their meaning-making structures. Central to this intersectional grounded theory is that structures of domination (e.g., racism and heterosexism) manifested for individuals in their higher education institutions, local contexts, sociopolitical climates, cultural dynamics, and interpersonal interactions. Acknowledging the role that power played in their exploration, Queer Students of Color communicated how they hoped to achieve a secure sense of self that does not internalize oppressive influences or that can resist marginalization. This goal of identity exploration represents the core category of the grounded theory. Ultimately, this theory of identity exploration for Queer Collegians of Color at HWIs has implications for higher education staff, faculty, and institutions with the aim of informing socially just practices at colleges and universities.

Download or read book Queer People of Color in Higher Education written by Joshua Moon Johnson and published by IAP. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queer People of Color in Higher Education (QPOC) is a comprehensive work discussing the lived experiences of queer people of color on college campuses. This book will create conversations and provide resources to best support students, faculty, and staff of color who are people of color and identify as LGBTQ. The edited volume covers emerging issues that are affecting higher education around the country. Leading researchers and practitioners have remarkable writing that concisely summarizes current literature while also adding new ways to address issues of injustice related to racism, sexism, homophobia, heterosexism, and transphobia. QPOC in Higher Education insightfully combines research with practical implications on services, systems, campus climate and ways to hostility, violence, and unrest on campuses. This book rises out of places of turmoil and pain and brings attention to broken systems on higher education. QPOC in Higher Education is a must?read for anyone who wants to transform their society, campus, or community into places that fully value the complex and beautiful intersections that our diverse communities come from. This book takes diversity to a deeper level and speaks from a social justice philosophy of looking big pictures at our systems and cultures instead of simply at our oppressed groups as the problems.

Download or read book Black and Queer on Campus written by Michael P. Jeffries and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inside look at Black LGBTQ college students and their experiences Black and Queer on Campus offers an inside look at what life is like for LGBTQ college students on campuses across the United States. Michael P. Jeffries shows that Black and queer college students often struggle to find safe spaces and a sense of belonging when they arrive on campus at both predominantly white institutions and historically black colleges and universities. Many report that in predominantly white queer social spaces, they feel unwelcome and pressured to temper their criticisms of racism amongst their white peers. Conversely, in predominantly straight Black social spaces, they feel ignored or pressured to minimize their queer identity in order to be accepted. This fraught dynamic has an impact on Black LGBTQ students in higher education, as they experience different forms of marginalization at the intersection of their race, gender, and sexuality. Drawing on interviews with students from over a dozen colleges, Jeffries provides a new, much-needed perspective on the specific challenges Black LGBTQ students face and the ways they overcome them. We learn through these intimate portraits that despite the gains of the LGBTQ rights movement, many of the most harmful stereotypes and threats to black queer safety continue to haunt this generation of students. We also learn how students build queer identities. The traditional narrative of “coming out” does not fit most of these students, rather, Jeffries describes a more gradual transition to queer acceptance and pride. Black and Queer on Campus sheds light on the oft-hidden lives of Black LGBTQ students, and how educational institutions can better serve them. It also highlights the quiet beauty and joy of Black queer social life, and the bonds of friendship that sustain the students and fuel their imagination.

Download or read book Where is My Place written by Sheltreese D. McCoy and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite a growing number of student services directed at Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) students on college and university campuses across the country, few studies address how these students manage on campuses, and even less information is known about Queer and Trans Students of Color (QTSOC). Within the dearth of current LGBTQ literature, the majority of QTSOC literature focuses almost exclusively on gay and bisexual Black cisgender male students. These students often report findings of racism, heterosexism, and isolation. Given this gap in the QTSOC literature, I address this research question: What are queer and transgender students of color experiences with cultural centers at a predominantly white university? This qualitative study was grounded in Queer Critical Theoretical Perspectives (QCP) and its antecedent Critical Race Theory (CRT). I conducted 45 interviews with 15 current queer and transgender students of color from one large predominantly white university. The findings suggest that even though there are spaces marked for specific identities, students who live at the intersections of race, gender, and sexual orientation still have a difficult time finding places on campus where they can be their full selves without oppressive experiences such as racism, heterosexism, transphobia, and gender bias.

Download or read book Embracing Queer Students Diverse Identities at Historically Black Colleges and Universities written by Steve D. Mobley Jr. and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2024-10-11 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embracing Queer Students’ Diverse Identities at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: A Primer for Presidents, Administrators, and Faculty is both a call to action and a resource for historically Black college and university (HBCU) leaders and administrators, focusing on historical and contemporary issues related to expanding inclusionary policies and practices for members of HBCU communities who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+). The essays, by HBCU presidents, faculty, administrators, alumni, and researchers, explore the specific challenges and considerations of serving LGBTQ+ students within these distinct college and university settings, with the ultimate goal of summoning HBCU communities, higher education scholars, and scholar-practitioners to take thoughtful and urgent action to support and recognize LGBTQ+ students. With this book as a primary resource, HBCUs can work toward becoming fully inclusive campus communities for all of their students.

Download or read book Critical Whiteness Praxis in Higher Education written by Zak Foste and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: College and university administrators are increasingly called to confront the deeply entrenched racial inequities in higher education. To do so, corresponding attention must be given to historical and contemporary manifestations of whiteness in higher education and student affairs.This book bridges theoretical and practical considerations regarding the ways whiteness functions to underwrite racially hostile and unwelcoming campus communities for People of Color, all the while upholding the interests and values of white students, faculty, and staff.While higher education scholars and practitioners have long explored the role of race and racism in college and university contexts, rarely have they done so through a lens of Critical Whiteness Studies (CWS). Exploring such topics through the lens of CWS offers new opportunities to both examine white identities, attitudes, and ways of being, and to explicitly name how whiteness is embedded in environments that marginalize and oppress students, faculty, and staff of color. This book is especially concerned with naming the material consequences of whiteness in the lives of People of Color on college and university campuses in the United States.Part one of the book introduces theoretical ideas and concepts administrators, scholars, and activists might use to interrogate how whiteness functions on campus. Part two of the book explores practical considerations for how whiteness functions across campus spaces, including student leadership programs, fraternity and sorority life, faculty tenure and promotion, LGBTQ support services, and so forth.

Download or read book Conducting Qualitative Research on and with College Students written by Antonio Duran and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-09-17 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the demographics of college students in the United States continue to shift, researchers increasingly design studies that offer insight into students enrolled in higher and postsecondary education institutions. This timely book addresses the challenges in appropriately engaging these students in research and how to develop scholarship featuring college student populations. Featuring tangible examples and strategies, this text breaks down the central tensions and opportunities that exist when designing qualitative studies that center college students and their development, experiences, and success. Chapters cover topics such as the philosophical underpinnings of qualitative research, study design, methodological approaches, data methods, issues of positionality, data analysis, trustworthiness, and writing up students’ stories. Scholars and practitioners at all career levels will benefit from the chapters describing key considerations that scholars must make when doing research with college students in the contemporary context. Discussing both traditional as well as more contemporary and critical approaches to qualitative research, this book helps students, faculty, and researchers grapple with key considerations of doing research with and on college students in the contemporary context, as well as with tangible ideas of how to better reach the college students that are enrolling in their institutions.

Download or read book American Higher Education in the Twenty First Century written by Michael N. Bastedo and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This edited volume offers a comprehensive introduction to the complex realities of American higher education, including its history, financing, governance, and relationship with the states and federal government. For this fifth edition, existing chapters were revised extensively to reflect contemporary realities, and new chapters were added"--

Download or read book Social Justice Design and Implementation in Library and Information Science written by Bharat Mehra and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-29 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Justice Design and Implementation in Library and Information Science presents a range of case studies that have successfully implemented social justice as a designed strategy to generate community-wide changes and social impact. Each chapter in the collection presents innovative practices that are strategized as intentional, deliberate, systematic, outcome-based, and impact-driven. They demonstrate effective examples of social justice design and implementation in LIS to generate meaningful outcomes across local, regional, national, and international settings. Including reflections on challenges and opportunities in academic, public, school, and special libraries, museums, archives, and other information-related settings, the contributions present forward-looking strategies that transcend historical and outdated notions of neutral stance and passive bystanders. Showcasing the intersections of LIS concepts and interdisciplinary theories with traditional and non-traditional methods of research and practice, the volume demonstrates how to further the social justice principles of fairness, justice, equity/equality, and empowerment of all people, including those on the margins of society. Social Justice Design and Implementation in Library and Information Science will be of great interest to LIS educators, scholars, students, information professionals, library practitioners, and all those interested in integrating social justice and inclusion advocacy into their information-related efforts to develop impact-driven, externally focused, and community-relevant outcomes.

Download or read book Narratives of Agency written by Simone Roby and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African American college students may face many challenges at predominantly White institutions (PWIs), including hostile campus climates, experiences of racism and discrimination, peer conflict, and academic challenges. Similar negative experiences/perceptions have been reported by LGBTQ+ identified college students, yet few students of color have been included in this area of research. Much of what is known about LGBTQ+ African American college students has been developed from the experiences of bisexual and gay, cisgender African American men. The purpose of this study was to increase knowledge about the experiences and challenges faced by non-heterosexual and non-cisgender African American students attending a PWI. Ten LGBTQ+ identified African American college students were interviewed about perceptions of their campus climate, social lives, and academic progress. Through a grounded theory analysis, agency was identified as the core theme underlying students' sense of thriving in their academic progress, peer relationships, and perceptions of campus climate. These findings may be useful in improving the on-campus experiences for LGBTQ+ identified African American college students, and all students, attending PWIs.

Download or read book Bridging Marginality through Inclusive Higher Education written by Marguerite Bonous-Hammarth and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the changing influences of diversity in American higher education. The volume offers evidence and recommendations to positively shape inclusive learning and engagement of students, faculty, staff and community across the complex terrains of urban, suburban, and rural organizations within higher education today. Chapters highlight critical collaborations across student affairs and academic affairs, and delve into milestones addressing access, retention, engagement, and thriving within distinctive institutional types (e.g., research, liberal arts, community colleges, Minority Serving Institutions). Authors also explore the nuanced changes occurring against the contemporary backdrop of COVID-19 experiences – including the rise of anti-Asian racism, the salience of implicit biases, and the disparate access to and impacts of health services. Essential chapters refocus our consideration about the trajectories of historically underrepresented groups and their peers (including, African Americans, Hispanic/Latino, Indigenous people, individuals with disabilities and those identifying as LGBTQ+, undocumented students, and women) in American higher education.

Download or read book Queer Activism in South African Education written by Dennis A. Francis and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-19 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a vital, critical contribution to debates on gender, sexuality and schooling in South Africa, this book highlights how South African educational practices, discourses and structures normalize cisheteronormativity, along with how these are resisted within schools and through contemporary forms of activism. Not only does it add fresh insights to the existing research literature on gender, sexualities and schooling, it also underscores the valuable contributions of queer and transgender social movements, which have made influential legislative, teaching, learning and support contributions to education. Drawing on ethnographic research with queer and transgender activists, teachers, school managers, parents and school attending youth, the book provides everyday real-life quotes and observations offering a deeply critical contribution to the debates on gender and sexualities, education and activism. Using spatial and affect theories, it troubles the assumptions that frame this field of research to make a novel contribution to the national and international literature and research. The book provides research-based insights for thinking about and calls for informed action to challenging cisheteronormativity within and beyond schools.

Download or read book Rethinking School Spaces for Transgender Non binary and Gender Diverse Youth written by Jennifer Ingrey and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-21 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Positing the washroom as an onto-epistemological site which exemplifies the way in which school spaces govern how gender is experienced, normalized, and understood by youth, this text illustrates how current school policies and practices around bathrooms fail to dismantle cisnormativity and recognize trans lives. Drawing on media-policy analysis, empirical study, and arts-based methodologies, it demonstrates how school spaces must be re-thought via a trans-centred epistemology, to be reflected in teacher education, policy, and curricula. Beginning with a review of the theoretical constellation of the heterotopia and critical trans-ing informing the analysis of data, it moves to offer a critical media and policy analysis of how trans and gender-diverse students are de-limited, erased, or harmed. This position is supported by analysis of empirical data from a school bathroom project, including student photographs of washrooms, and other visual expressions of gender-diverse and gender-complex individuals. These elements—the media-policy analysis, the empirical study, and the archival online material—ultimately combine to offer new justifications for critical trans-informed policies and practices in education that recognize and centre trans and gender-diverse knowledges, expressions, and experiences. Centring the specific and nuanced debates around trans phenomena via an innovative methodology, it makes a unique and extremely timely contribution to the debate on gender-inclusive bathrooms, as well as trans rights to self-identification. As such, it will appeal to scholars, postgraduates, educators, and faculty working in the area of gender and sexuality in education, with interests in trans phenomena.

Download or read book Advancing Sexual Consent and Agential Practices in Higher Education written by Jason Laker and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-03 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Agony of Education written by Joe R. Feagin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Agony of Education is about the life experience of African American students attending a historically white university. Based on seventy-seven interviews conducted with black students and parents concerning their experiences with one state university, as well as published and unpublished studies of the black experience at state universities at large, this study captures the painful choices and agonizing dilemmas at the heart of the decisions African Americans must make about higher education.

Download or read book Queerness as Doing in Higher Education written by Jesus Cisneros and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-18 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guided by the scholarly personal narratives of LGBTQ+ higher education scholars, practitioners, and scholar-practitioners, this informative volume explores how individuals exist within and experience the insider/outsider paradox within higher education as they engage in disruption, queer methods, and action. The second of a two-volume series, this book relates to the firsthand accounts and personal stories of the contributors in order to illustrate the challenges and opportunities that exist for queer and trans people. Framed through the concept of queerness as doing, this book takes up the important question of what it means to occupy both positions of oppression and degrees of privilege within society and in the context of work. It discusses how stories depict the nuances of the insider/outsider paradox relative to practicing queerness as a politic while identifying as part of the LGBTQ+ community in higher education settings. The book then looks to the future, discussing implications for research and practice, using the lessons learned from the chapter authors. Comprised of firsthand contributions and innovative scholarship, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of queer and trans studies, student affairs, gender and sexuality studies, and higher education, as well as those seeking to understand the experiences of LGBTQ+ scholars and practitioners as they navigate central tensions in their scholarship and practice.