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Bazemore-James, Cori; Boyd, Beth – New Directions for Student Services, 2021
This article delves into the uniquely layered barriers faced by mixed-race Indigenous college students in campus environments. Observations are provided on how to decolonize our practices to better support their identity development and inclusion.
Descriptors: Multiracial Persons, Indigenous Populations, College Students, Barriers
Stites, Alicia K.; Khan, Mohammad-Mehdi A.; Dean-Scott, Shannon R. – New Directions for Student Services, 2021
This article presents the experiences of Multiracial students at a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) and the unique challenges they face in exploring their racial identities and finding belonging.
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Minority Serving Institutions, Multiracial Persons, College Students
Sanchez, Mabel E. – Journal of College and Character, 2021
Researchers have suggested that student group involvement during college is beneficial for students on various academic and psychosocial measures. Most research has not focused on how different student groups provide different environments and support that impact students' experience. This ethnography focuses on one Christian student organization…
Descriptors: Christianity, Student Organizations, Power Structure, College Students
Snyman, Maritha E. – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Reading Association of South Africa, 2016
The topic of this longitudinal study was reading promotion and its perceived benefits. The aim was to determine if reading promotion can lead to reader development and if reader development can lead to self-development, as is often claimed in the literature. A reading promotion project in the Northern Cape, South Africa, was monitored over a…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Foreign Countries, Reading Programs, Individual Development
Nikolaeva, Sardana – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The South African coloured identity is a profoundly complex construction that, on the one hand, is interpreted as an ambiguous and "in-between" identity and, on the other hand, its own ambiguity and complexity provides multiple means and strategies of production and articulation within various contexts. This dissertation seeks to examine…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Racial Identification, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students
Renn, Kristen A. – New Directions for Student Services, 2008
Racial identity development among college students with parents from different heritage groups was largely unexplored until the 1990s, when two forces--one demographic, the other theoretical--converged to stimulate interest in understanding the experiences and identities of biracial and multiracial youth. The increasing number of students from two…
Descriptors: College Students, Racial Identification, Student Development, Multiracial Persons
Wong, Michael Paul A.; Buckner, Joshua – New Directions for Student Services, 2008
This article provides insight into the recent appearance of multiracial student services in U.S. higher education by presenting a review of current practice within student affairs administration. The authors begin by discussing the historical and social context for multiracial student services within prevailing approaches to multicultural identity…
Descriptors: Multiracial Persons, College Students, Student Personnel Services, Higher Education
Jackson, Kelly F. – Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work, 2009
Using a social work developmental lens, this qualitative study explored some of the numerous social and environmental factors that shape a multiracial individual's cultural identity. Results from transcript analysis portray the cultural identity of multiracial persons as significantly influenced by (1) personal experiences of racism and…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Social Work, Cultural Influences, Social Influences