Reported Prejudice Among Undergraduates of Multiple Race-Ethnic, Gender, and LGBTQ Identities: Corroborated Models and Narratives

• In Event: 68.061 - Roundtable Session 30
  In Roundtable Session: 68.061-2 - Intersectional Education Research Across Race and Gender Lines

Abstract

Undergraduates’ persistent reports of experienced and witnessed prejudice on campuses accounted for race-ethnic, gender, and sexual orientation related prejudice. This study examined reported witnessed and experienced prejudice among undergraduates who self-identified as race-ethnic, gender, and sexual orientation minorities on campus and it investigated the extent to which their self-identified backgrounds further marginalized them based on their perceptions of social distance towards peers. Intersectionality in students’ race-ethnic, SES (class), and gender, and additionally, LGBTQ sexual orientations provided a multidimensional approach. This accounted for minority and non-minority students’ perceived witnessed prejudice on campus. Educators also must transcend beyond programmatic remedies to mitigate students’ persistent reported prejudice, exclusion, and negative biases in learning environments, which impact their sociocultural and academic development and achievement.

Authors

• Deborah Levine-Donnerstein, The University of Arizona

• Elizabeth Ashley Bukoski, The University of Arizona