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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Latina/o/x"”.
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First Year College Experiences of California’s Central Valley Latina/o/x Students
… point. The aim of this study was to explore how Latina/o/x students from California’s Central Valley navigated their college transition in the first year by drawing from their high school experiences and a summer youth conference, Chicanas/os LEAD. Through conducting 21 semi-structured …
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Mapping the Socio-Spatial Educational Trajectories of Justice-Impacted Latina/o/x Students
… the educational trajectories of justice-impacted Latina/o/x students and how it is shaped by social-spatial contexts is lesser known. The purpose of this study is to address this research limitation by exploring the socio-spatial contexts that shape the educational experiences across the academic …
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Latina/o/x community college student engagement: a quantitative study of goal to transfer
… over the last few decades. People identifying as Latina/o/x are already the largest minority population and are projected to become 29% of the U.S. population by the year 2050 (Salinas, 2015). Since 1980, the number of school age children within the Latina/o/x community increased from 8.1% to 25%. …
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Beyond a "Labor of Love": Exploring the Experiences of College Advising Professions in Central Texas
… college advising professionals. A growing Latina/o/x population, coupled with their lagging college completion rates, creates a focus on Latina/o/x students and the ways college access professionals, support and/or affect their educational context and outcomes. Traditional models of college …
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Exitosas on Their Own Terms: Centering Latina Testimonios to Understand Latina Undergraduates’ Student Success Beliefs
… this research centered the voices of 11 Latina undergraduates attending a 4-year private, predominantly white institution in the Western U.S. to understand how they defined and measured their own success in higher education. Traditional success measures focus on the institution's dominant …
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The Impact of Non-Traditional Mentorship on Latina Graduate Students During Covid-19
… resource. Understanding how COVID-19 impacted Latina graduate students’ acquisition of these relationships was the goal of the study. While much of the research has centered on the Latina/o/x undergraduate experience, this research focused on Latinas in graduate programs. This qualitative, …
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Afro-Latinx Transnational Identities: Adults in the San Francisco Bay and Los Angeles Area
… paper examines the identity construction of Afro-Latinas/os/x in the San Francisco Bay and Los Angeles Area. Marginalized communities predominately Black and Latina/ o/x concentrated are at the epicenter of disenfranchisement caused by the globalization of neoliberalism. Neoliberal reforms to …
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Latino encounters: Mexicans, Tejanos, and Puerto Ricans in postwar Michigan, 1929-1971
… Michigan, 1929-1971” examines three groups of Latina/o/xs as they forged national and transnational networks through postwar migration and agricultural labor. I argue that Latina/o/x migrants melded distinct claims to U.S. citizenship through interethnic and international conflicts over access …
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The Whiteness Project of Gentrification: The Battle over Los Angeles' Eastside
<p>For many years, the city of Los Angeles has declared war on communities of color. In the past decade, former communities of color like Echo Park, Silver Lake, and Highland Park have all been converted into predominantly white, affluent neighborhoods. In essence, working-class people of colors' …