Intersections of Identity and Sexual Violence on Campus

Centering Minoritized Students' Experiences

Author: Jessica C. Harris
Secondary Author: Chris Linder
ISBN: 9781620363881

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 histo

Publisher: Stylus Publishing, LLC
Publish Date: 2017-02-28

Subjects: Education / Higher

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