Contents
Part I
Chapter 1: Always Crossing Boundaries, Always Existing in Multiple Bubbles: Intersected Experiences and Positions on College Campuses
Rachelle J. Brunn-Bevel, Sarah M. Ovink, W. Carson Byrd, and Antron D. Mahoney
Part II: Beyond Exams and Parties: Student Identities and Experiences
Chapter 2: The Contingent Climate: Exploring Student Perspectives at a Racially Diverse Institution
Marcela G. Cuellar and R. Nicole Johnson-Ahorlu
Chapter 3: More than Immigration Status: Undocumented Students in U.S. Jesuit Higher Education
Terry-Ann Jones
Chapter 4: Race-based Assumptions of Social Class Identity and their Consequences at a Predominantly White (and Wealthy) Institution
Deborah M. Warnock
Chapter 5: Biracial College Students’ Racial Identity Work: How Black-White Biracial Students Navigate Racism and Privilege at Historically Black and Historically White Institutions
Kristen A. Clayton
Chapter 6: The Still Furious Passage of the Black Graduate Student
Victor E. Ray
Part III: Between Research, Teaching, and Service: Faculty Identities and Experiences
Chapter 7: Faculty Members from Low Socioeconomic Status Backgrounds: Student Mentorship, Motivations, and Intersections
Elizabeth M. Lee and Tonya Maynard
Chapter 8: Doing Less with Less: Faculty Care Work in Times of Precarity
Denise Goerisch
Chapter 9: Faculty Assessments as Tools of Oppression: A Black Woman’s Reflections on Colorblind Racism in the Academy
Bedelia N. Richards
Chapter 10: “Diversity” Goals and Faculty of Color: Supporting Racial Inclusion and Awareness in General-Education Courses
Melanie Jones Gast, Ervin (Maliq) Matthew, and Derrick R. Brooms
Chapter 11: Pursuing Intersectionality as a Pedagogical Tool in the Higher Education Classroom
Orkideh Mohajeri, Fernando Rodriguez, and finn schneider
Part IV: Life among Paperwork and Bureaucracy: Staff Identities and Experiences
Chapter 12: Intersecting Identities and Student Affairs Professionals
Ophelie Rowe-Allen and Meredith Smith
Chapter 13: Studying STEM while Black: How Institutional Agents Prepare Black Students for the Racial Realities of STEM Environments
Tonisha B. Lane
Chapter 14: Exclusion, Perspective Taking, and the Liminal Role of Higher Education Staff in Supporting Students with Disabilities
Annemarie Vaccaro and Ezekiel Kimball
Part V: Intersectionality and Equity Efforts among Campus Communities
Chapter 15: Making Room for Gendered Possibilities: Using Intersectionality to Discover Transnormative Inequalities in the Women’s College Admissions Process
Megan Nanney
Chapter 16: Troubling Diversity: An Intersectional Analysis of Diversity Action Plans at U.S. Flagship Universities
Susan V. Iverson
Chapter 17: Tips of Icebergs in the Ocean: Reflections on Future Research for Embracing Intersectionality in Higher Education
W. Carson Byrd, Sarah M. Ovink, and Rachelle J. Brunn-Bevel
Notes on Contributors
Index