College Students' Experiences of Power and Marginality

Sharing Spaces and Negotiating Differences
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-138-78555-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 308 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lee, Elizabeth M

Ladousa, Chaise

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth M. Lee is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Ohio University.

Chaise LaDousa is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Hamilton College.