TY - BOOK ID - 30683613 TI - Support Systems and Services for Diverse Populations PY - 2011 SN - 1283123371 9786613123374 0857249444 0857249436 9780857249449 9780857249432 9781283123372 PB - Bingley, UK Emerald DB - UniCat KW - African American community college students KW - Services for. KW - Community college students, African American KW - Community college students KW - Education KW - Education: care & counselling of students. KW - African American women KW - Multicultural Education. KW - Students & Student Life. KW - Education (Higher) KW - Afro-American women KW - Women, African American KW - Women, Negro KW - Women UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30683613 AB - More than identity politics, intersectionality regards the inability of institutional structures to remedy discrimination because of the intersection between social dynamics which are often discretely conceived (Crenshaw & Dill, 2009). For a set of Black women workers in the manufacturing context, the court found that they were not discriminated against on the basis of their race, because Black male workers were hired for manufacturing positions. Those Black women were not discriminated against because of their gender, because there were White women hired for the front office. Those Black women workers were caught at the intersections of race and gender discrimination laws and left their employment without an effective remedy (Crenshaw, 1989). This intersection metaphor is worth examining in the higher education context as we consider that the majority of students on most U.S. campuses are women (Allen, Dean, & Bracken, 2008), and an increasing number of these women are not White; yet, most campuses have support services targeted at African American and/ or multicultural student affairs and womens services which are generally targeted at White women. This volume will focus on the subpopulation of Black female college students, examining institutional and non-institutional supports for their persistence to the undergraduate degree. ER -