NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 3 results Save | Export
High Impact of [Whiteness] on Trans* Students in Postsecondary Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Stewart, Dafina-Lazarus; Nicolazzo, Z. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2018
This article asserts whiteness as an ideology that reaches beyond race/racism to shape and reproduce other interlocking oppressive systems. In higher education, this notion of whiteness permeates commonly celebrated "high impact practices" (HIPs) to undermine the success of trans* students in US postsecondary education. Through an…
Descriptors: College Students, Whites, Racial Bias, Higher Education
"Just Go in Looking Good": The Resilience, Resistance, and Kinship-Building of Trans* College Students
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Nicolazzo, Z. – Journal of College Student Development, 2016
This article explores the strategies transgender college students use to navigate gender-dichotomous collegiate environments. Using a critical collaborative ethnographic methodology (Bhattacharya, 2008), this 18-month ethnographic study alongside 9 transgender students elucidated how gender operates as a discourse to regulate the collegiate life…
Descriptors: Sexual Identity, College Students, Gender Issues, Educational Environment
Celluloid Marginalization: Pedagogical Strategies for Increasing Students' Critical Thought through the Multiple (Re)Readings of Trans* Subjectivities in Film
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Nicolazzo, Z. – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2014
Critically analyzing films allows for the interrogation of how such binaries as normal/abnormal, good/bad, and moral/immoral are culturally (re)inscribed, who sets the boundaries of what is deemed socially legible, and who gets to decide where these boundaries are set. This article utilizes critical discourse analysis to explore the transgender…
Descriptors: Social Attitudes, Sexual Identity, Gender Issues, Films