Preface : it doesn't have to be race-ethnicity to be about race-ethnicity -- Outlining the problem -- The impossibility of a colorblind identity : shifting social identities from the margin to the center of or understanding of how historically marginalized students experience campus life -- An ambivalent embrace : how financially distressed students make sense of the cost of college / with Resney Gugwor -- Strategic disengagement : preserving one's academic identity by disengaging from campus life / with Ja'Dell Davis -- Power in the in midst of powerlessness : scholar-activist identity amid racially and ethnically motivated violence / with Elan Hope -- Importance of a critical mass : experiencing one's differences as valued diversity rather than a marginalized threat / with Carly Offidani-Bertrand -- Finding one's people and one's self on campus : the role of extracurricular organizations / with Gabriel Velez -- Split between school, home, work, and more : commuting as a status and a way of being / with Hilary Tackie and Elan Hope -- Out of thin air : when one's academic identity is not simply an extension of one's family identity / with Emily Lyons -- A guiding hand : advising that connects with students' culturally situated motivational orientations toward college / with Tasneem Mandviwala -- (Dis)integration : facilitating integration by carefully attending to difference.
Summary:
"A detailed account of how racial-ethnic identity structures Black and Latinx students' college transition experiences"-- Provided by publisher.
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