ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the question of how intersectionality can assist in the understanding of college student identity, especially for Queer Student of Color. First, the author will offer an overview of college student identity research that is relevant to this book. Though the student affairs field has long emphasized the necessity to develop college students holistically, room exists to expand upon this work. Specifically, scholars have yet to actualize the potential of critical frameworks to critique the structures, practices, and policies at HWIs that shape identity for students. Acknowledging this gap, the author establishes the need for this text and intersectional analyses specifically. The author then provides a brief description on the genealogy of intersectionality and what theoretical interventions the framework introduced into the academy. The author concludes by interrogating the debate concerning whether scholars can use intersectionality to shed light on matters of identity, together with theorizing the relationship between the field of intersectionality studies and queer studies.
