Multicultural & Culture Centers

Books & Chapters

  • Benavides López, C. (2015). El Día de los Muertos, Chicana/o studies, and cultural centers: Promoting transformational leadership through celebratory socialization co-curricular programming. In A. Lozano (Ed.), Latino/a college student leadership: Emerging theory, promising practice. Rowman & Littlefield.
  • Cheatham, H. E. (Ed.). (1992). Cultural pluralism on campus. University Press of America.
  • Douglas, T. M. O., Shockley, K. G., & Toldson, I. (2020). Campus uprisings: How student activists and collegiate leaders resist racism and create hope. Teachers College Press. 
  • Harper, S. R. (Ed.). (2008). Creating inclusive campus environments for cross-cultural learning and student engagement. National Association of Student Personnel Administrators. 
  • 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.
  • Lowe, S. C., Waterman, S. J., & Shotton, H. J. (2013). Beyond the asterisk: Understanding Native students in higher education. Stylus Publishing. 
  • Patton, L. D. (Ed.). (2010). Culture centers in higher education: Perspectives on identity, theory, and practice. Stylus Publishing.
  • Rosado, S., & Toya, G. J. (2015). Applied critical leadership and sense of belonging: Lessons learned from cultural center staff and lesbian, gay, and bisexual Latino/a students. In L. Santamaría & A. Santamaría (Eds.), Culturally responsive leadership in higher education: Promoting access, equity, and improvement. Routledge.
  • Stewart, D. L. (Ed.). (2011). Multicultural student services on campus: Building bridges, re-visioning communities. Stylus Publishing. 

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
  • Jones, J. D., & William, M. (2006). The African American student center and Black student retention at a Pacific Northwest PWI. Western Journal of Black Studies, 30(4), 24-34. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aqh&AN=42515093&site=eds-live
  • 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/
  • Walter, S. (2005). Moving beyond collections: Academic library outreach to multicultural student centers. Reference Services Review, 33(4), 438-458. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/00907320510631562/full/html

Theses & Dissertations

  • 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. 

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