Full Description
Offers novel frameworks and models for understanding college access and choice among communities of Color.
This much-needed volume brings together academics, practitioners, students, and community members of Color to thoroughly reframe college access and choice in research and practice. Enrollment rates continue to differ substantially by race and ethnicity. While Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color remain inequitably stratified in the pursuit of higher education, many models of college choice are simply insufficient for understanding the college-going processes of diverse students. Continually centering BIPOC knowledge, assets, and needs, contributors provide a series of varied yet connected frameworks grounded in culturally sustaining, community-oriented research. Like the educational journeys it represents, the volume is a communal activity that invites participation. Each chapter concludes with a series of critical reflection questions to guide readers in deeper learning and engagement.
Contents
Foreword
Judy Marquez Kiyama
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chrystal A. George Mwangi and Yedalis Ruíz Santana
1. A POC-Centered (Re)Framing of College Access and Choice
Chrystal A. George Mwangi and Yedalis Ruíz Santana
Part I: Youth-Centered Framings
2. Critically Conscious College Knowledge: Critiquing Notions of College Readiness through an Ethnic Studies Lens
Joel A. Arce and Ashley Carpenter
3. Intergenerational Posttraumatic Transformation: Reframing College Access for Students from Refugee Backgrounds
Diep H. Luu
4. "Removing la cascara": The Cost of Being Resilient among Puertorriquena College Aspirants
Yedalis Ruíz Santana
Part II: Community-Grown Framings
5. When Impossible Becomes Possible! A Critical Access Model That Centers Equity in Community Health
Tania M. Barber
6. Widening Postsecondary Educational Pathways for Black and Latinx Boys and Young Men: Personal Reflections, Professional Experiences, and Research-Based Insights
Roderick L. Carey
7. Breaking the Chains of Intergenerational Poverty and Becoming a First-Generation Warrior
Anastasia (Stasia) Morton
8. "By Us, for Us": A Student Bridges Approach to Access and Retention among Historically Underrepresented Populations
Olga M. Correa and Kelsey Ruiz
Part III: Culture- and Family-Oriented Framings
9. College Choice as Conocimiento: Disentangling the Reflective and Cyclical Postsecondary Pathways of Latina/o/x Students
Nancy Acevedo
10. Family Building: College Choice Process for Native American Students
Eliza Yellow Bird, Amanda R. Tachine, and Nolan L. Cabrera
11. Under the Baobab Tree: Developing a Family-Centered Framework for College Choice with Black African Immigrant Families
Chrystal A. George Mwangi
Conclusion
Yedalis Ruíz Santana and Chrystal A. George Mwangi
Contributors
Index
