First-Generation College Student Experiences of Intersecting Marginalities

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

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.

"This book is an important contribution to more than one field of inquiry: working-class studies, student affairs, and campus diversity. The essays complicate and enrich our understanding of who the first-gen student actually is, just as first-gen students also complicate and enrich our nation's campuses. The book promises to help colleges and universities better understand first-gen students and support them in meaningful, effective ways, moving beyond discussion of 'access' alone and toward retention and graduation. The book is a valuable addition to the literature driving change to make higher education both more welcoming and more responsive to the needs and aspirations of all students." -Carolyn Leste Law, Thesis/Dissertation Advisor at Northern Illinois University and coeditor of This Fine Place So Far from Home: Voices of Academics from the Working Class