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Summary:

"First-generation college students, intersections of marginality, identity, narrative, ethnic and racial minority college students, mental health and college students, LGBTQ first-generation college students, transgender students, imposter syndrome, divorce, tokenization, institutional support for first-generation college students" -- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Section One: The Weight of Intersecting Marginalized Identities. The Importance of Intersecting Marginalized Identities in Considering What is Known and Not Known about First-Generation College Students / Teresa Heinz Housel
• "I Felt the Invisible Hand of Inequity Fall Firmly on My Shoulders, Holding Me Back": Exploring the Intersectional Identities of First-Generation College Student Women / Audra K. Nuru, Tiffany R. Wang, Jenna Abetz, and Paris Nelson
• From Invisible Trailblazers to Insurgent Leaders: An Intergenerational Narrative of Transcendence at the Intersection of Race, Class, Sexual Orientation, and Spirituality / Trott Nely Montina and Jonathan Mathias Lassiter
• The (Im)Possible Dream / Micaela Rodriguez, Sascha Hein, and Leslie A. Frankel
• Latinx First-Generation College Students' Career Decision Self-Efficacy: The Role of Social Support, Cultural Identity, and Cultural Values Gap / Paulette D. Garcia Peraza and Angela-MinhTu D. Nguyen
• Academic (Im)Posturing: A Critical Autoethnography of Becoming a Latinx, First-Generation College Student and Professor / Rebecca Mercado Jones
• Section Two: Considering Invisible Marginalities. "If We Had Used Our Heads, We Would Be Set." Intersections of Family, First-in-the-Family Status, and Growing Up in Working-Class America / Teresa Heinz Housel
• Living with Anxiety as a First-Generation College Student: Intersections of Mental Health and the First-Generation College Student Experience / Andrea L. Meluch
• Navigating Multiple Marginalized Identities: Experiences of an Emancipated First-Generation Transgender Foster Care College Student / Jacob O. Okumu and Kay-Anne P. Darlington
• I Belong Here Too. / Danica A. Harris
• Section Three: The Role of Intersecting Marginalized Identities in Institutional Socialization. Outside/Inside (Higher) Education: Colonizing Oppression, Intersectional Struggles, and Transformative Opportunities for Marginalized First-Generation College Students / Xamuel Bañales
• Supporting the Lived Experiences of First-Generation College Students: Implications from the UNiLOA and DSDM Student Success Models / Gloria Aquino Sosa, Pietro Sasso, Tracy Pascua Dea
• Translating Knowledge into Action: Making Intersecting Marginalized Identities Visible in the Classroom and Beyond / Teresa Heinz Housel.

Contributors:

Housel, Teresa Heinz, 1972- , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

Equity in higher education theory, policy, & praxis; v. 10

Subjects:

First-generation college students — United States

Minorities — Education (Higher) — United States

People with social disabilities — Education (Higher) — United States

First-generation college students

Minorities — Education (Higher)

Minorities

People with social disabilities — Education (Higher)

People with social disabilities

United States

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

xxii, 240 pages ; 23 cm.

Call Numbers:

LC4069.6 .F57 2019

ISBNs:

9781433157028 (hardback, alk. paper)
1433157020 (hardback, alk. paper)
9781433157035 (paperback, alk. paper)
1433157039 (paperback, alk. paper)
9781433155239 (mobi) [Invalid]
9781433155215 (ebook pdf) [Invalid]
9781433155222 (epub) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2018028674

OCLC Numbers:

1041194357