Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- The Authors -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Preface -- SECTION ONE: Situating Identity -- CHAPTER ONE: Situating Ourselves in the Study of Identity -- Susan's Story -- Elisa's Story -- Discussion Questions and Activities -- CHAPTER TWO: Situating the Study of Identity in the Evolution of Student Development Theories -- Overview of Student Development Theory -- Influence of Disciplinary Perspectives on Identity -- Locating Identity in Psychosocial Development -- Erikson and Psychosocial Identity -- Chickering and Identity Development -- Social Identities -- Socially Constructed Identities -- Privilege and Oppression -- Identity Salience -- Summary -- Discussion Questions and Activities -- SECTION TWO: Multiple Identities and Models -- Interludes -- Susan -- Elisa -- CHAPTER THREE: Multiple Social Identities and Intersecting Identities -- Scholarship Leading to the Model of Multiple Dimensions of Identity -- Foundational Student Development Theories -- Scholarship on Underrepresented Groups -- Socially Constructed Identities and Intersections -- Multidimensional Identity Model -- Personal and Social Identities -- The Original Study: Voices of Identity and Difference (Jones, 1995) -- Sampling Considerations -- Participants in the Study -- Findings: Contextual Influences on the Construction of Identity -- Relative Salience of Identity Dimensions -- Multiple Layers of Identity -- Braiding of Gender -- Contextual Influences on the Construction of Identities -- Summary -- Discussion Questions and Activities -- CHAPTER FOUR: Model of Multiple Dimensions of Identity -- Overview of the Model of Multiple Dimensions of Identity -- The Core -- Multiple Social Identities -- Relationship of Social Identities to the Core and Identity Salience.

Contextual Influences -- Strengths and Limitations of the Model of Multiple Dimensions of Identity -- Strengths of the MMDI -- Limitations of the MMDI -- Summary -- Discussion Questions and Activities -- CHAPTER FIVE: Reconceptualized Model of Multiple Dimensions of Identity -- Meaning-Making Capacity -- Meaning-Making Capacity and Multiple Social Identities -- Reconceptualized MMDI: Partnering the MMDI and Meaning Making -- KT's Story: Meaning-Making Capacity and Relationships Among Sexual Orientation, Religion, Social Class, and Gender -- Sexual Orientation and Religion -- Sexual Orientation and Social Class -- Sexual Orientation and Gender -- Carmen's Story: The Reconceptualized Model and Systems of Inequality-Considering a More Flexible Model -- Summary -- Discussion Questions and Activities -- SECTION THREE: Critical Theoretical Frameworks and Multiple Identities -- Interludes -- Susan -- Elisa -- Stephen -- David -- CHAPTER SIX: Intersectionality -- An "Intersectional Approach" -- Historical Origins -- Intersectionality and Multiple Identities -- Theoretical Interventions of Intersectionality -- Centering the Experiences of People of Color -- Complicating Identity -- Unveiling Power in Interconnected Structures of Inequality -- Promoting Social Justice and Social Change -- Applications of Intersectionality in Higher Education Scholarship -- Constructivist and Intersectional Interpretations of a Lesbian College Student's Multiple Identities (Elisa S. Abes) -- Considering Multiple Social Identities Using Autoethnographic and Intersectional Approaches (Susan R. Jones, Yoolee Choe Kim, and Kristan Cilente Skendall) -- Intersectional Model of Multiracial Identity (Charmaine L. Wijeyesinghe) -- Critiques and Challenges of Intersectionality -- Applying Intersectionality to the Model of Multiple Dimensions of Identity -- Context -- Identity Salience.

Core -- Multiple Identities -- Filter -- Intersectional Model of Multiple Dimensions of Identity -- Summary -- Discussion Questions and Activities -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Critical Race Theory -- Critical Race Theory and Higher Education -- Critical Race Theory and Identity -- Critical Race Theory: Historical Origins and Core Tenets -- Ordinariness of Racism -- Interest Convergence -- Social Construction and Differential Racialization -- Intersectionality and Anti-Essentialism -- Counterstorytelling -- Using CRT with Student Identity Development -- Critical Race Theory and the Model of Multiple Dimensions of Identity -- Core -- Multiple Social Identities -- Identity Salience -- Contextual Influences and Filtering -- Critical Race Theory Model of Multiple Dimensions of Identity -- Summary -- Discussion Questions and Activities -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Queer Theory -- Philosophical Roots of Queer Theory -- Queer Theory, Higher Education, and Student Identity -- Queer Theory and Its Key Tenets -- Queer Theory -- Heteronormativity -- Performativity -- Desire -- Becoming -- Applying Queer Theory Concepts to the MMDI: Queering the Model -- Heteronormativity -- Desire -- Performativity -- Becoming -- A Queered MMDI -- Heteronormativity (Context) -- Performatives (Social Identities) -- Desire (Filter) -- Becoming (Core) -- Summary -- Discussion Questions and Activities -- SECTION FOUR: Educational Applications and Future Directions -- Interludes -- Susan -- Elisa -- CHAPTER NINE: Application of the Models in Educational Contexts -- Application of the Model of Multiple Dimensions of Identity -- MMDI as a Framework for Scholarly and Empirical Research -- Theoretical Contributions of the MMDI -- Practical Applications of the MMDI -- Considerations for Applying the Intersectional, CRT, and Queered Models -- Educating the Educator.

Tapping into Students' Stories Through the Critical Models -- Educational Contexts That Foster Students' Critical Understanding of Identity -- Campus Climate and Critical Perspectives: Counterspaces and Supports for Marginalized Students -- Diversity-Focused Courses, Intergroup Dialogue, and Critical Perspectives -- Service-Learning and Critical Perspectives -- Challenges and Opportunities: "A Call to Action" -- Summary -- Discussion Questions and Activities -- CHAPTER TEN: Future Directions -- Exploring Relationships Among Constructivism, Intersectionality, Critical Race Theory, and Queer Theory -- Distinctions Among Intersectionality, Critical Race Theory, and Queer Theory -- Merging Aspects of Queer Theory, Critical Race Theory, and Intersectionality into New Theoretical Perspectives -- Extending Theoretical Perspectives Beyond the Identities at Their Forefront -- Theoretical Borderlands -- Borderland Analysis Examples in the Literature -- Borderland Analysis of Intersectionality, Queer Theory, and Critical Race Theory -- Borderland Analysis of Constructivism, Intersectionality, Queer Theory, and Critical Race Theory -- Applying a Borderland Analysis to the MMDI -- Derrick -- Ian -- Kira -- Alex -- Mei-Yen -- Summary -- Discussion Questions and Activities -- Final Interludes -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index -- End User License Agreement.