Developing an Intersectional Consciousness and Praxis

Moving Toward Antiracist Efforts in Higher Education

Edited by:
Jonathan A. McElderry, Elon University
Stephanie Hernandez Rivera, Elon University

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.

Published 2025

Colleges and universities across the country continue to struggle supporting students with marginalized identities, including (but not limited to) gender, race, ethnicity, sexual identity, ability level, socio-economic status, religious identity, and citizenship status. The creation of safe and inclusive learning environments necessitates the adoption of equitable policies and practices (McElderry & Hernandez-Rivera, 2019).

Therefore, this book can be used as a tool for practitioners to further support students from marginalized identities at PWIs. Grounded in the NASPA/ACPA Core Competencies, this book allows practitioners to share their knowledge and best practices in how they support students of color across the following functional areas in higher education: Student Learning & Development; Social Justice & Inclusion; Health & Wellbeing; Advising & Supporting; Assessment, Evaluation, & Research; Senior/Executive Leadership.

CONTENTS
Developing an Intersectional-Conscious and Praxis: Moving Toward Antiracist Efforts in Higher Education, Stephanie Hernandez Rivera and Jonathan A. McElderry. SECTION I: INSTITUTIONAL LEADERSHIP. Traveling the Combahee River, Finding Your North Star: An Intersectional Approach to Anti-Racist Leadership, Jordan Shelby West. Missing the Mark: A Call to Action for Well-Intentioned Institutional Leaders, Nicole Pulliam, Carolina E. González, and Nicole Videla. Supporting Intersectional-Consciousness & Praxis in Antiracist Efforts through the T.I.R.I.F.I.C Framework, Bruce E. Mitchell, II. SECTION II: HEALTH & WELLNESS. Insiders-Outsiders: Intersectional Marginalization and Well-being in Higher Education Through Black Feminist Theorization, Nadia Qureshi and Sewsen Igbu. Health Equity Now: Leveraging Critical Consciousness to Shape Health Equity for Black Queer and Trans* Students on Predominantly White Campuses, Jarrel T. Johnson and Tyanez C. Jones. SECTION III: TEACHING, ADVISING, & RESEARCH. For Us, By Us: Unpacking Research With and For Black Students in Higher Education as Early Career Black Men Faculty, Jason K. Wallace, Jarrel T. Johnson, and Jesse R. Ford. Interrogating the Academy: Critical Approaches to Engaged Pedagogy, Advising, and Mentorship, Kela Caldwell, Dorothy Lsoto, AnnaBeth Thomas, Alexandra Villa and Erika Marín-Spiotta. Black Doctoral Socialization and the Faculty Career Choice, Cameron J. Harris. Toward Justice, Liberation, and Freedom Building: Using Pla tica to Explore a Praxis of Intersectionality in Research, Adrianna González Ybarra, Ekaete Udoh, Stephanie Hernandez Rivera, and Brittany Fatoma. Co-Teaching to Create Socially Just Leadership Learning Environments: An Exploration of Teaching and Learning Through Multiple, Intersecting Identities, Jesse R. Ford and Megan Karbley. SECTION IV: EQUITY & INCLUSION EFFORTS. The Master’s Tools: Musing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Divisions as Distractions for Black Individuals, Marshall Allen. Black and Immigrant: Amplifying an Overlooked Journey in the Black Higher Education Experience, Dayne Hutchinson and Monique C. Atherley. This Space Is for You, Too: Empowering Queer Black Undergraduate Men in Black Male Initiative Programs, Jeff Perkins, Darius Caffey, Donald D. Gilliam, and Jonathan A. McElderry. Inclusion Above Diversity: Highlighting Engagement Narratives of Black Alumni in Higher Education, Kanika Jackson, Chad Kee, and Omari Jackson. SECTION V: STUDENT AFFAIRS. “I Feel Like Where We Are From Also Matters”: Supporting Racial and Place-Based Identity Development on Campus, Jarvis Marlow-McCowin and Elise J. Cain. Navigating Identity and Space: Black Women in Historically Black Sororities Fostering Community to Resist Marginalization, Britt M. Spears-Rhymes. Biographies.