This Special Issue of the
Harvard Educational Review considers the needs, interests, and experiences of Latina/o students currently enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities. It draws from the tradition of consejos—words of wisdom, honoring both the insights of our contributors and the personal advice of the Latina/o students whose stories the authors examine. Through scholarly articles and personal narratives, this issue identifies unexplored questions, unchallenged assumptions, and new insights about Latina/o students’ undergraduate experiences. The result is a complex array of articles that presents a hitherto unequaled portrait of the experiences—the challenges, aspirations, frustrations, and strategies—that together mark the undergraduate educations of Latina/o students today.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Sylvia Hurtado
Editors’ Introduction
Ángeles, Sacrificios, y Dios:A Puerto Rican Woman’s Journey Through Higher Education
Marisa Rivera
Latina/o Undergraduate Students Mentoring Latina/o Elementary Students: A Borderlands Analysis of Shifting Identities and First-Year Experiences
Dolores Delgado Bernal, Enrique Alemán Jr., and Andrea Garavito
Existentialism at Home, Determinism Abroad: A Small-Town Mexican American Kid Goes Global
Joe Robert González
From the Bricks to the Hall
Mellie Torres
The Re-Education of a Pocha-Rican: How Latina/o Studies Latinized Me
Arelis Hernandez
Sin Papeles y Rompiendo Barreras: Latino Students and the Challenges of Persisting in College
Frances Contreras
Dimensions of the Transfer Choice Gap: Experiences of Latina and Latino Students Who Navigated Transfer Pathways
Estela Mara Bensimon and Alicia C. Dowd
Critical Race Theory, Racial Microaggressions, and Campus Racial Climate for Latina/o Undergraduates
Tara Yosso, William Smith, Miguel Ceja, and Daniel Solórzano
M.E.: Mexican American and Educated
Marlen Vasquez
Increasing Latino/a Representation in Math and Science: An Insider’s Look
Jarrad Aguirre
Challenging Racist Nativist Framing: Acknowledging the Community Cultural Wealth of Undocumented Chicana College Students to Reframe the Immigration Debate
Lindsay Pérez Huber
Results Not Typical: One Latino Family’s Experiences in Higher Education
Margarita Jimenez-Silva, Norma V. Jimenez Hernandez, Ruth Luevanos, Dulcemonica Jimenez, and Abel Jimenez Jr.
Barriers to Success: A Narrative of One Latina Student’s Struggles
Jannell Robles
The Xicana Sacred Space: A Communal Circle of Compromiso for Educational Researchers
Lourdes Diaz Soto, Claudia G. Cervantes-Soon, Elizabeth Villarreal, and Emmet E. Campos
Book Notes
Standing on the Outside Looking In
edited by Mary F. Howard-Hamilton, Carla L. Morelon-Quainoo, Susan D. Johnson, Rachelle Winkle-Wagner, and Lilia Santiague.
Undocumented Immigrants and Higher Education
Alejandra Rincón.
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