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Hord, F. L. (2005). Black culture centers: Politics of survival and identity. Third World Press Foundation.
Jenkins, T. S., Conerly, R., Hypolite, L. I., & Patton, L. D. (2021). The campus underground railroad: Strategies of resistance, care, and courage within university cultural centers. In B. C. Williams, D. D. Squire, & F. A Tuitt (Eds.), Plantation politics and campus rebellions: Power, diversity, and the emancipatory struggle in higher education (pp. 199-224). SUNY Press.
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Academic Articles
Hypolite, L.I. (2020). “It just helps to know that there are people who share your experience”: Exploring racial identity development through a Black cultural center. Journal of Negro Education, 89(3), 233-248. https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/802530.
Hypolite, L. I. (2020). People, place, and connections: Black cultural center staff as facilitators of social capital. Journal of Black Studies, 51(1), 37-59. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021934719892238
Hypolite, L. I. (2022). “We’re drawn to this place”: Black graduate students’ engagement with a Black cultural center. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 15(1), 86-96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000283
Kornbluh, M., Bell, S., Vierra, K., & Herrnstadt, Z. (2022). Resistance capital: Cultural activism as a gateway to college persistence for minority and first-generation students. Journal of Adolescent Research, 37(4), 501-540. https://doi.org/10.1177/07435584211006920
Linder, C., Quaye, S. J., Stewart, T. J., Okello, W. K., & Roberts, R. E. (2019).“The whole weight of the world on my shoulders”: Power, identity, and student activism. Journal of College Student Development, 60(5), 527-542. https://doi.org/10.1353/csd.2019.0048
Lucas, K. L., & Roberts, S. A. (2022). Undergraduates’ sense of belonging, community, and support at a Title V center. Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 59(5), 529-543. https://doi.org/10.1080/19496591.2021.2006676
Malaney, G. D., Gilman, D., & O’Connor, J. (1997). Assessing student opinion toward a multicultural student union. NASPA Journal, 34(3), 170-185. https://doi.org/10.2202/1949-6605.1019
Okia, O. (2022). From Black studies to multiculturalism: The evolution of the Bolinga Black Cultural Resources Center at Wright State University, 1971-2018. Ohio Valley History, 22(1), 47-69. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/853035
Richter, J., Faragó, F., Swadener, B. B., Roca-Servat, D., & Eversman, K. A. (2020). Tempered radicalism and intersectionality: Scholar-activism in the neoliberal university. Journal of Social Issues, 76(4), 1014-1035. https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12401
Tichavakunda, A. A. (2021). Black joy on White campuses: Exploring Black students’ recreation and celebration at a historically White institution. The Review of Higher Education, 44(3), 297-324. https://doi.org/10.1353/rhe.2021.0003
Tichavakunda, A. A. (2024). Studying Black student life on campus: Toward a theory of Black placemaking in higher education. Urban Education, 59(1), 96-123. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042085920971354
Valentín Díaz, K. M. (2023). The Latino cultural center: Higher education and the importance of community. Purdue Journal of Service-Learning and International Engagement, 10(1). https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/pjsl/vol10/iss1/10/
Nare, J. L. (2023). “Healing a part of my soul”: A qualitative case study exploring cultural centers and student achievement in higher education (Publication No. 30422836) [Doctoral dissertation, University of California, San Diego]. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing.
Ortiz, M. A. (2013). Assessing diversity: A cost benefit analysis of culture centers and targeted students’ success (Publication No. 794) [Master’s thesis, Wright State University]. Wright State University’s Electronic Theses and Dissertations.
Reynolds, L. G. (2016). University cultural centers: History, identity, and activism at the nexus of museums and academia [Masters thesis, University of Illinois at Chicago]. UIC University Library.
Smith, F. (2018). The politics of ethnic studies, cultural centers, and student activism: The voices of Black women at the academic borderlands (Publication No. 10929596) [Doctoral dissertation, Loyola Marymount University]. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing.
Wong, K. N. (2021). The role of on-campus, race-based student activism in a multicultural center at a predominantly white institution: An ecological case study (Publication No. 28318739) [The George Washington University]. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing.
Dunlap, J., Chamberlain, A. W., Wesaw, A., & Parnell, A. (2023). Advancing racial justice on campus: Student and administrator perspectives on conditions for change. National Association of Student Personnel Administrators.https://bit.ly/3PUWnM7