Enacting Intersectionality in Student Affairs: New Directions for Student Services, Number 157(J-B SS Single Issue Student Services)

While models of identity and student development have been essential tools for student affairs practitioners, intersectionality has increasingly been recognized as an analytic framework that captures the complex interaction of social identities at the personal level and in larger social systems. This volume demonstrates how intersectionality informs and enhances student affairs practice in the areas of student identity theory, programming, research, coalition building, residential life, service-learning, international student services, and strategic planning in significant and transformative ways. It: Provides multiple, concrete examples of intersectional interventions and programs, Evaluates the promises and challenges of implementing intersectionality in day-to-day practice, and Describe how its core tenets enhance our understanding of resistance, privilege, and students’ responses to social justice education. The contributors also wrestle with key questions that arise when we enact intersectionality in student affairs work, such as whether the framework reflects the experiences of people from privileged social groups or what additional social categories should be considered when addressing identity from an intersectional perspective. This is the 157th volume of this Jossey-Bass higher education quarterly series. An indispensable resource for vice presidents of student affairs, deans of students, student counselors, and other student services professionals, New Directions for Student Services offers guidelines and programs for aiding students in their total development: emotional, social, physical, and intellectual.

Table of Contents:
EDITOR’S NOTES 5 Charmaine L. Wijeyesinghe 1. Multidimensional Identity Model Revisited: Implications for Student Affairs 15 Raechele L. Pope, Amy L. Reynolds 2. Engaging Students at the Intersections Through Multicultural Centers: An Application of the Culturally Engaging Campus Environment Model 25 James C. McShay 3. Teaching Community On and Off Campus: An Intersectional Approach to Community Engagement 35 Tania D. Mitchell 4. Helping Students Understand Intersectionality: Reflections from a Dialogue Project in Residential Life 45 Sharon Chia Claros, Gina A. Garcia, Marc P. Johnston-Guerrero, Christine Mata 5. Using Intersectionality in Student Affairs Research 57 Terrell L. Strayhorn 6. Intersectionality in Student Affairs: Perspective from a Senior Student Affairs Officer 69 Larry Moneta 7. A “Nation-ized” Intersectional Analysis: The Politics of Transnational Campus Unity 81 Margo Okazawa-Rey 8. Advancing Social Justice Work at the Intersections of Multiple Privileged Identities 91 Frances E. Kendall, Charmaine L. Wijeyesinghe INDEX 101

About the Author :
Charmaine L. Wijeyesunghe has held numerous positions in student affairs administration and is currently an independent scholar and consultant in social justice education, identity and intersectionality, and organizational change.