Full Description
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.
Contents
1. Introduction Part One: Introducing the Intersections 2. Centring Queer Students of Color: Setting the Stage for the Study Part Two: Exploring the Intersections 3. Intersectinoal Influences: Manifestations of Overlapping Systems of Power 4. Navigating Historically White Institutions and Beyond: The Role of Salient Experiences During College 5. Race, Sexuality, and More: The Intersecting Identities of Queer Students of Color 6. Moving Forward: Hopes Shared by Queer Students of Color 7. Navigating Historically White Institutions and Beyond: The Role of Salient Experiences During College Part Three: Embracing the Intersections 8. Implications for Intersectional Theorizing in Higher Education 9. Implications for Historically White Institutions 10. Implications for Professionals Afterword
Methodological Appendix
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