Exploring Healthy Gender Identity Development and Supports in Men of Color Programs Through Qualitative Interviews

• In Event: Place and Gender in Men of Color's College Experience

Abstract

This paper highlights how 50+ students in two distinct men of color programs in four-year universities can be vulnerable and explore emotional well-being with peers. Using Rendon's validation theory and individual and focus group interviews, the findings stress the importance of men of color programs' positive benefits not only on college persistence and degree completion but also on positive and healthy gender-identity performance. The author provides recommendations to student affairs professionals on how to implement similar practices and efforts on college campuses.

Author

• Adrian H. Huerta, University of Southern California