This contributed book explores what actually happens on campus as students from an increasingly wide range of backgrounds enroll and share space.

Elizabeth M. Lee is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Ohio University.

Chaise LaDousa is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Hamilton College.

Introduction: Power and Marginality on Campus

Elizabeth M. Lee

Part One: Identities in Practice

1. At the intersection of race and class: An autoethnographic study on the experiences of a Southeast Asian American college student Kimberly A. Truong, Tryan L. McMickens, and Ronald E. L. Brown
2. "I Kind of Found My People": Latino/a College Students' Search for Social Integration on Campus

Sandi Kawecka Nenga, Guillermo A. Alvarado, and Claire S. Blyth

3. Constructing "Hawaiian," Post-Racial Narratives, and Social Boundaries at a Predominantly White University

Daniel Eisen

4. "That's What Makes Our Friendships Stronger": Supportive Friendships Based on Both Racial Solidarity and Racial Diversity

Janice McCabe

Part Two: Institutional Interactions around Power and Marginality

5. Crisscrossing Boundaries: Variation in Experiences with Class Marginality among Lower-Income, Black Undergraduates at an Elite College

Anthony Abraham Jack

6. Les Miraculés: "The Magical Image of the Permanent Miracle"-Constructed Narratives of Self and Mobility from Working-Class Students at an Elite College

Allison L. Hurst and Deborah M. Warnock

7. Pushed in or Pulled Out? How Organizational Factors Shape the Social and Extra-curricular Experiences of First-generation Students

Jenny M. Stuber

8. Homo Academicus at Play: An Ethnographic Study of Becoming College Men in a First Year Residence Hall

Jane M. Jensen and Karin Ann Lewis

9. Diversity Does Not Mean Equality: De Facto Rules that Maintain Status Inequality among Black and White Fraternity Men

Rashawn Ray and Bryant Best

10. Being "the Gay" on Campus: Developing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and/or Queer identities in a college context

Elizabeth M. Lee and Chaise LaDousa