Support Systems and Services for Diverse Populations: Considering the Intersection of Race, Gender, and the Needs of Black Female Undergraduates (Diversity in Higher Education, 8) - Hardcover

Crystal Renee Chambers

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0857249436 ISBN 13: 9780857249432

Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2011

Synopsis

More than identity politics, intersectionality regards the inability of institutional structures to remedy discrimination because of the intersection between social dynamics which are often discretely conceived (Crenshaw & Dill, 2009). For a set of Black women workers in the manufacturing context, the court found that they were not discriminated against on the basis of their race, because Black male workers were hired for manufacturing positions. Those Black women were not discriminated against because of their gender, because there were White women hired for the front office. Those Black women workers were caught at the intersections of race and gender discrimination laws and left their employment without an effective remedy (Crenshaw, 1989). This intersection metaphor is worth examining in the higher education context as we consider that the majority of students on most U.S. campuses are women (Allen, Dean, & Bracken, 2008), and an increasing number of these women are not White; yet, most campuses have support services targeted at African American and/ or multicultural student affairs and women s services which are generally targeted at White women. This volume will focus on the subpopulation of Black female college students, examining institutional and non-institutional supports for their persistence to the undergraduate degree.

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Crystal Renee Chambers - East Carolina University

Review

My students have been calling for years for collections pertaining to different, specific student populations. Thanks! --Patrick Dilley, Southern Illinois University

Focusing on the particularities of challenges, obstacles, and dilemmas that face undergraduate students who are black and female, 11 contributions from counselors and educational leadership and policy specialists address various aspects of student life and achievement. More specifically, they discuss student engagement, support needs, technology-driven college classrooms, community cultural wealth, perspectives on church and spirituality, ivy-league institutions, and the paradox of success, among other topics. Editor Crystal Fenée Chambers is affiliated with the department of higher, adult, and counselor education, East Carolina U. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. --Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR

Focusing on the particularities of challenges, obstacles, and dilemmas that face undergraduate students who are black and female, 11 contributions from counselors and educational leadership and policy specialists address various aspects of student life and achievement. More specifically, they discuss student engagement, support needs, technology-driven college classrooms, community cultural wealth, perspectives on church and spirituality, ivy-league institutions, and the paradox of success, among other topics. Editor Crystal Fenée Chambers is affiliated with the department of higher, adult, and counselor education, East Carolina U. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. --Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR

About this edition

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0857249436
• ISBN 13: 9780857249432
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 250
• Editor: Crystal Renee Chambers