Blurring Boundaries and Binaries

Belonging, Gender, and Mixed Heritages in Higher Education in the United States

Edited by:
Pietro A. Sasso, Delaware State University
DeLa Dos, Association of Research Libraries
Mona Nour, Nour Counseling & Consulting

A volume in the series: Identity & Practice in Higher Education-Student Affairs. Editor(s): Pietro A. Sasso, Delaware State University. Shelley Price-Williams, University of Northern Iowa.

In Press 2024

Multiraciality is not an identity to be fractured or abstracted by others, but rather integrated across multiple racial locations. Multiraciality is sophisticated and its weaving of complexity into forging new congruence posits new ways to understand identity. Multiraciality disrupts monoracial constructs and can be disorienting to others who are unable to have sufficient knowledge of self to be able to conceptualize that other persons occupy multiple racial locations across broader systems of culture and identity domains. Multiraciality is to be celebrated, explored and made visible. Thus, this text is also reflected of different author identities and from the different academic disciplines of education, sociology, and counseling.

CONTENTS
Foreword, Derrick Paladino. Editors Preface, Pietro A. Sasso, DeLa Dos, and Mona Nour. PART I: BLURRING. Applying Third Wave Feminist Theory With Multiracial College Students: Path to Existential Freedom From the Patriarchy, Joanne Jodry. Developmental Pathways of Multiracial Undergraduate College Men, Pietro A. Sasso, Brandon M. Soltis, and Kim E. Bullington. Critical Multiracial Theory (MultiCrit), Rebecca Cepeda. Multiracial Liberation: Living Outside the Margins, Hope Ann Olivia Fagundes and Abbie Williams-Yee. The University of Texas at El Paso: A Historical Counternarrative to U.S. Higher Education in the 20th Century, Victoria Barbosa Olivo. Race Considerations for Multiple Racial Identities: A Critical Radical Justice Perspective and Approach, Pierre Washington. Addressing Mental Health Needs of Multiracial College Men, Mona Nour and Siu-Man Raymond Ting. Framing an Emancipatory Future for Multiracial People: Intergenerational Strategies for Revolutionary Practice, Rebecca Cepeda, Lisa Delacruz Combs, and Charmaine L. Wijeyesinghe. Beyond Antiracist Pedagogy: Theorizing Multiracial Learning Space and Praxis in Envisioning the Future of U.S. Classroom, Keisuke Kimura and Anthony Peavy. PART II: BELONGING. Complicating the Intersections: Racial Identity and Gender Expansiveness on Campus, Deanna Cor and Andres Guzman. Intersections of Invisibility: Disability and Multiraciality, Zachary McNiece and Jasmaine Ataga. Choose or Be Rendered Invisible? Reimagining the Multiracial Student Experience Through the Theory of Racialized Organizations, Gabrielle Danis and Michael Lanford. Chinese Transracial Adoptee Consciousness, Sabrina M. Murray. Finding Belonging Through Involvement for a Mixed-Race Transracial Adoptee, Leticia Romo and Pietro A. Sasso. Transracial Adoptee College Adult Men, Susan Branco and Charmaine Conner. Intersectionality and Mixed Race/Heritage LGBTQIA+: Identifying College Students, Sherri L. Ford, Mona D. Nour, and Antonique Jones. Where’s My Bindi? Excavating Multiracial Identity Across Binaries and Boundaries, Raquel Wright-Mair and Ashley Wood Elmes. #Creole: The Radical Potential of Louisiana Creole Politics in the 21st Century, Danae Hart. (Re)Considering Racial Microaffirmations in Higher Education for Transracial Adoptee, Audrey Devost and Willa Mei Kurland. Counteracting Monoracism: Multiraciality and Ethnic Studies Curriculum in K–12 Schools, Lucinda Fisher. PART III: BEING. “The Sigmas, The SONs, The Sunnies That Too”: Latinidad Affirmation Through a Latina Interest Sorority and the Impact on Entering Student Affairs, Amelia-Marie K. Altstadt and Betzabel Z. Martinez. Hypervisibly Invisible: Transracial Adoptee + Student Affairs Professional, DeLa Dos. Choreographing Mixed-Asian Masculinity, Jacob Wong-Campbell. As a Kid Feeling Too Black for the White Folk: Balancing Multiracial Identity in Social and Academic Settings, Tevis D. Bryant. Propagated, Alycia N. West. Reflections of a Multiracial Father-Scholar, Brendon M. Soltis. Alex Franklin and Jillian Cordial: Personal Narrative, Alex Franklin and Jillian Cordial. Reflections of a Chinese Transracial Adoptee, Sabrina M. Murray. Personal Narrative: A. J. Dillon, A. J. Dillon. Love and Thunder, Becka Shetty and Anil Shetty. About the Authors.