Full Description
As scholars and administrators have sharpened their focus on higher education beyond trends in access and graduation rates for underrepresented college students, there are growing calls for understanding the experiential dimensions of college life. This contributed book explores what actually happens on campus as students from an increasingly wide range of backgrounds enroll and share space. Chapter authors investigate how students of differing socioeconomic backgrounds, genders, and racial/ethnic groups navigate academic institutions alongside each other. Rather than treat diversity as mere difference, this volume provides dynamic analyses of how students come to experience both power and marginality in their campus lives. Each chapter comprises an empirical qualitative study from scholars engaged in cutting-edge research about campus life. This exciting book provides administrators and faculty new ways to think about students' vulnerabilities and strengths.
Contents
Introduction: Power and Marginality on Campus
Elizabeth M. Lee
Part One: Identities in Practice
At the intersection of race and class: An autoethnographic study on the experiences of a Southeast Asian American college student Kimberly A. Truong, Tryan L. McMickens, and Ronald E. L. Brown
"I Kind of Found My People": Latino/a College Students' Search for Social Integration on Campus
Sandi Kawecka Nenga, Guillermo A. Alvarado, and Claire S. Blyth
Constructing "Hawaiian," Post-Racial Narratives, and Social Boundaries at a Predominantly White University
Daniel Eisen
"That's What Makes Our Friendships Stronger": Supportive Friendships Based on Both Racial Solidarity and Racial Diversity
Janice McCabe
Part Two: Institutional Interactions around Power and Marginality
Crisscrossing Boundaries: Variation in Experiences with Class Marginality among Lower-Income, Black Undergraduates at an Elite College
Anthony Abraham Jack
Les Miraculés: "The Magical Image of the Permanent Miracle"—Constructed Narratives of Self and Mobility from Working-Class Students at an Elite College
Allison L. Hurst and Deborah M. Warnock
Pushed in or Pulled Out? How Organizational Factors Shape the Social and Extra-curricular Experiences of First-generation Students
Jenny M. Stuber
Homo Academicus at Play: An Ethnographic Study of Becoming College Men in a First Year Residence Hall
Jane M. Jensen and Karin Ann Lewis
Diversity Does Not Mean Equality: De Facto Rules that Maintain Status Inequality among Black and White Fraternity Men
Rashawn Ray and Bryant Best
Being "the Gay" on Campus: Developing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and/or Queer identities in a college context
Elizabeth M. Lee and Chaise LaDousa
