Historically, identity centers have produced communities for students, faculty and administrators representative of their identity (e.g. Women’s, LGBT, Hispanic, and African American centers). These centers have provided support, strengths-based identity development and a safe ‘space’. However, some believe that they have “become lightning rods for accusations of self-segregation or campus balkanization and locations for in-group discrimination…” (Renn, 2011).
Should Identity Centers exist? Are they promoting reverse sexism, racism or heterosexism?
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