COLLEGE WOMEN OF COLOR: INTERSECTIONALITY, RESILIENCE, RESISTANCE, AND EMERGING ADULTHOOD

ABSTRACT In this special issue, we focus on the resilience processes found among diverse groups of CWOC. We emphasize four key concepts: developmental perspective (emerging adulthood), resilience, resistance, and intersectionality. Included are the studies with African American and Latinx young adult women, Latina mothers, and Chinese sojourner women. Papers in the special issue appear as follows: Rana et al.’s paper on Latinx mothers attending college, then Causey et al. on African American women navigating white college spaces with typologies of success, followed by Johnson et al.’s paper, amplifying African American and Latinx women’s intersectional strivings using maternal messages as rudders, and finally, Qin et al.’s paper on international Chinese women managing their immigrant experiences as sojourners in the U.S. In each study CWOC demonstrate successful resistance and striving as the press the boundaries of gender-race constraints.