First-Generation College Student Experiences of Intersecting Marginalities

Teresa Heinz Housel is Lecturer at the School of Communication, Journalism and Marketing at Massey University in Wellington, New Zealand. She was previously Associate Professor of Communication at Hope College in the United States. Her research focuses on first-generation college students, news media coverage of housing and homelessness, and global media. Among her publications, she has co-edited (with Vickie L. Harvey) several books about first-generation college students, including Faculty and First-Generation College Students: Bridging the Classroom Gap Together (2011) and The Invisibility Factor: Administrators and Faculty Reach Out to First-Generation College Students (2009). For more on Teresa Heinz Housel, visit her website:teresaheinzhousel.com.

• Carolyn Calloway-Thomas: Preface – Teresa Heinz Housel: Acknowledgments – List of Abbreviations – Section One: The Weight of Intersecting Marginalized Identities – Teresa Heinz Housel: The Importance of Intersecting Marginalized Identities in Considering: What Is Known and Not Known About First-Generation College Students – Audra K. Nuru/Tiffany R. Wang/Jenna Abetz/Paris Nelson: "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 – Trott Nely Montina/Jonathan Mathias Lassiter: From Invisible Trailblazers to Insurgent Leaders: An Intergenerational Narrative of Transcendence at the Intersection of Race, Class, Sexual Orientation, and Spirituality – Micaela Rodriguez/Sascha Hein/Leslie A. Frankel: The (Im)Possible Dream – Paulette D. Garcia Peraza/Angela-MinhTu D. Nguyen: Latinx First-Generation College Students’ Career Decision Self-Efficacy: The Role of Social Support, Cultural Identity, and Cultural Values Gap – Rebecca Mercado Jones: Academic (Im)Posturing: A Critical Autoethnography of Becoming a Latinx, First-Generation College Student and Professor – Section Two: Considering Invisible Marginalities – Teresa Heinz Housel: "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 – Andrea L. Meluch: Living With Anxiety as a First-Generation College Student: Intersections of Mental Health and the First-Generation College Student Experience – Jacob O. Okumu/Kay-Anne P. Darlington: Navigating Multiple Marginalized Identities: Experiences of an Emancipated First-Generation Transgender Foster Care College Student – Danica A. Harris: I Belong Here, Too – Section Three: The Role of Intersecting Marginalized Identities in Institutional Socialization – Xamuel Bañales: Outside/Inside (Higher) Education: Colonizing Oppression, Intersectional Struggles, and Transformative Opportunities for Marginalized First-Generation College Students – Gloria Aquino Sosa/Pietro A. Sasso/Tracy Pascua Dea: Supporting the Lived Experiences of First-Generation College Students: Implications From the UNiLOA and DSDM Student Success Model – Teresa Heinz Housel: Translating Knowledge Into Action: Making Intersecting Marginalized Identities Visible in the Classroom and Beyond – Contributors – Index.

“Contributors to this volume reveal how demographics such as race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation intersect with first-generation college students, the book’s unifyingtheme, to hinder marginalized groups before, during, and after graduation. These authors’ writings demonstrate why every institution of higher education should sponsor anorganization that addresses the disparate needs of its first-generation students.”—Ken Oldfield, Emeritus Professor of Public Administration at the University of Illinois at Springfield