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CAMPUS COLORLINES:
THE CHANGING BOUNDARIES OF RACE WITHIN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER
EDUCATION IN THE POST-CIVIL RIGHTS ERA
by
Patricia Elizabeth Literte
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(SOCIOLOGY)
August 2007
Copyright 2007 Patricia Elizabeth Literte
Object Description
| Title | Campus colorlines: the changing boundaries of race within institutions of higher education in the post-civil rights era |
| Author | Literte, Patricia Elizabeth |
| Author email | literte@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Sociology |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2007-06-13 |
| Date submitted | 2007 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2007-07-24 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Saito, Leland |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Stanton-Salazar, Ricardo Wong, Janelle |
| Abstract | The post-Civil Rights era has been characterized by numerous challenges to traditional understandings of race. The dismantling of legalized segregation and discrimination, ongoing immigration from Asia and Latin America, increasing acceptance of interracial contact and relationships, and relatively unceasing conflict between the Western and Arab world, are just some of the socio-political trends and events which have yielded an increasingly fluid, complex, and intricate racial terrain. Given the increasing fluidity of race in U.S. society, the overarching goal of this dissertation is to illuminate the nature and implications of changing racial identity boundaries in the post-Civil Rights era. In order to fulfill this goal, I examine (1) the experiences of university students who defy conventional racial identity categorizations, (2) the processes of organization/mobilization in which these students engage, and (3) the role universities play in shaping and responding to these students, whose racial identities and politics are often incongruent with the institutions' views of race. The majority of research on college students' racial identities and racialized political activity focuses on conventional understandings of racial identity, which rely on the assumption that there are five singular racial categories -- black/African American, Latino/a, white, Asian American, and Native American. Less is known about racial identities and corollary political activity which falls outside these boundaries. My dissertation addresses this gap through a two-tiered analysis. First, I comparatively examine how students come to organize/mobilize around two identities which challenge singular or "monoracial" conceptualizations of race: (1) biracial identity and (2) "people of color" identity. Second, I examine how monoracially oriented student services (i.e., black student service offices) respond to such organization/mobilization.; Study of these processes within the particular domain of higher education can assist student service practitioners in the formulation and implementation of programming on increasingly diverse campuses and can provide insight into how students can more fully participate in their universities' public life. My methods of data collection include interviews (N = 90) with students and administrators, student focus groups, observation, and archival research. |
| Keyword | race; racial identity; college; higher education; politics; student services |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m647 |
| Rights | Literte, Patricia Elizabeth |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Literte-20070724 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume23/etd-Literte-20070724.pdf |
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| Full text | CAMPUS COLORLINES: THE CHANGING BOUNDARIES OF RACE WITHIN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE POST-CIVIL RIGHTS ERA by Patricia Elizabeth Literte A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (SOCIOLOGY) August 2007 Copyright 2007 Patricia Elizabeth Literte |
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