Intersections of Identity and Sexual Violence on Campus Centering Minoritized Students' Experiences

• Main Authors: Harris, Jessica C, Linder, Chris
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2017; Stylus Publishing; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: College students with disabilities; EDUCATION; Minority college students; Rape in universities and colleges; Sexual minorities; United States; Women college students; sexual victimization; campus administrators; critical race theory; sexual violence; college campus; intersectionality; campus-based sexual violence activism; identity groups; higher education; empowerment-based model; minoritized students' experiences; queer-spectrum student
• ISBN: 9781620363874; 1620363879; 9781620363881; 1620363887; 9781620363904; 1620363909
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003445418

While sexual violence has been present and prevalent on campus for decades, the work of recent college student activists has made it an issue of major societal and institutional concern. This book makes an important contribution to and provides a foundation for better contextualizing and understanding sexual violence. Each chapter in this edited volume focuses on populations that are not often centered in the discourse of campus sexual violence and accounts for individuals' intersecting identities and how they interlock with larger systems of domination. Challenging dominant ideologies concerning assumptions of white women as the only victims-survivors, the racialization of aggressors, and the deleterious rape myths present in both research and practice, this book draws attention to the complexities of sexual violence on the college campus by highlighting populations that are frequently invisible in research, reporting, and practice. The book places sexual violence on campus in a historical context, centering the experiences of populations relegated to the margins, and highlighting the relationship between racism, classism, homophobia, transphobia, and other forms of domination to sexual violence. The final chapters of the book explore how critical models of intervention and prevention and a critical analysis of existing institutional policies may be implemented across college campuses to better address sexual violence for multiple populations and identities in higher education. This book will expand educators' understanding of sexual violence to inform more effective policies, procedures, practice, and research that reaches beyond preventing sexual violence and addresses the dominant systems from which sexual violence stems, in an attempt to eradicate, not just prevent, the act and the issue.