Shaking the Table

Stephanie Hernandez Rivera, Ph.D. is a Boricua woman and race-gender, higher education scholar and educator. She is an assistant professor at Elon University (NC), USA, in the Master of Arts in Higher Education Program, and the endowed Dr. Jo Watts Williams School of Education Emerging Jonathan A. McElderry, Ph.D. is a dedicated scholar, educator, and higher education practitioner. Currently serving as the Dean of Student Inclusive Excellence and an Assistant Professor at Elon University (NC), USA, Dr. McElderry is deeply committed to enhancing the academic and social experiences of historically marginalized students, particularly those at predominantly White institutions.

• Chapter 1. Surviving and Healing: Identity Center Practitioners’ Navigating Identity, Power, and Position; Jonathan A. McElderry and Stephanie Hernandez RiveraSection 1. Surviving Alongside StudentsChapter 2. Lifting from the Field: Challenging Plantation Politics to Increase Support for Cultural Center Professionals; Tristen Brenaé Johnson, Tekita Bankhead, and Jamal J. MyrickChapter 3. Beyond Surviving Alongside Our Students: An Asian American University Staff Perspective of Mourning and Resistance; Julian Ignacio and Alyson KungChapter 4. The Bitter with the Sweet: Empowerment Through the Struggle of Protecting Spaces for Intersecting Communities; Bruce E. MitchellChapter 5. Home Away from Home: The Liminal Space of Latino Cultural Centers; Carina OlaruChapter 6. Hold the Line! A Call to Action for Professionals Serving Within Black Cultural Centers; Emerald S.Green, Bridgette Johnson, and Adrian JonesChapter 7. Outsider-Within: A Black Woman’s Journey in Multicultural Center Administration at an HWI; Erica T. Campbell;Chapter 8. Continuing the Foundation: A Multigenerational Perspective on Leadership in Identity Centers; Bobby D. Steele, Gabrielle N. Lloyd, and Ro-Anne Royer EngleChapter 9. What If We Just Walk Away?: A Question and an Answer; Dana Murray PattersonChapter 10. Hello, from the Otherside; A. Pierre Sherrill IISection 2. Healing in the StruggleChapter 11. Touching My Spirit: Healing Through Memory; angela gay-audreChapter 12. Responding to the Call: A Queer Latine Understanding of Self Using Conocimiento; Luis H. GarayChapter 13. Mitigating Misogynoir: Cultivating Psychologically Safe Experiences for Black Women Leading Cultural Centers Using Black Feminist Approaches; Tekita Bankhead and Nikita HaynieChapter 14. “It Is Better to Speak”: Public Testimony as Survival, Resistance, and Healing; Bulaong RamizChapter 15. My Ethnic Studies Kuwento: Healing and Liberation Through Student Resource Centers; Michael R. Manalo-PedroChapter 16. “At the End of the Day, the Day Gotta End”: Collective Healing After Trauma in Multicultural Affairs Work; Jason K. Wallace, Jesse R. Ford, and Jaborius D. BallChapter 17. Radical Love and Belonging: Emerging Understandings from a Former Cultural Center Practitioner; Jasmine A. Lee;Chapter 18. We Deserve More: Wisdom from the Voices of Identity Center Practitioners; Jonathan A. McElderry and Stephanie Hernandez Rivera;