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Gender, Race, Inequality and Student Friendship in Higher Education

Ingrid E. Castro
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friendship studies
gender
gender stereotypes
gendered friendships
interracial friendships
intersectionality
qualitative study
race relations
university campuses

Product details

  • ISBN 9781350540705
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 03 Sep 2026
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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With a qualitative case study of two university campuses in the United States, Ingrid E. Castro examines experiences of students in forming and sustaining close interracial friendships.

The data in this book are comprised of interviews with students conducted at two predominantly white institutions in the early 2000s, illuminating how women of various races struggled to find commonality across difference, particularly in relation to racism, white privilege and experiences with stereotyping, microaggressions and segregation on campuses. Taking a feminist approach attending to gender, race and class inequality, Castro contributes autoethnographic recollections of her experiences as a multiethnic Latina college student in the early 1990s. She then analyses Xennial women’s experiences with the benefit of contemporary frameworks and theories on gendered friendships, parental protectionism, campus climate and race relations, and explores the social and academic spaces of campus, which include interest groups, classrooms, majors, and dorms as sites of interaction. The conclusion reflects on the ideology of meritocracy and current DEI efforts on campuses in the U.S., suggesting institutional and policy changes to better campus climate and increase the potential for interracial friendship formation for students. A rich, honest and detailed account of relationships emerges with significant implications for the field of friendship studies and the sociology of higher education.

Gender, Race, Inequality and Student Friendship in Higher Education is essential reading for those interested in how universities must move forward in addressing gender, race and class relations on university campuses.
About Ingrid E. Castro
Ingrid E. Castro is Professor of Sociology at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, USA. She is the editor of five collected volumes: Researching Children and Youth (2017), Representing Agency in Popular Culture (2019), Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction (2019), Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy (2021), and Child and Youth Studies: A Reader (2026). She is currently the Co-Chair of the Eastern Sociological Society’s Committee on Gender Equity and is a former Chair of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Children and Youth. In 2026, she became the Founder of the American Sociological Association’s newest section—Creative Sociology.

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