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The Chicana/o/x Dream - Hope, Resistance and Educational Success (Hardcover)
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The Chicana/o/x Dream - Hope, Resistance and Educational Success (Hardcover)
Series: Race and Education
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Based on interview data, life testimonios, and Chicana feminist
theories, The Chicana/o/x Dream profiles first-generation,
Mexican-descent college students who have overcome adversity by
utilizing various forms of cultural capital to power their academic
success. While college enrollment rates for Chicana/o/x students
have steadily increased over the last decade, this cohort still
faces significant barriers to academic achievement, including
minimal information about college and limited access to the kind of
preparation and advising that will help them get there. As a
result, Chicana/o/x students maintain stubbornly low four-year
completion rates. Against this backdrop, Gilberto Q. Conchas and
Nancy Acevedo address the mechanisms that shape the achievement,
aspirations, and expectations of Chicana/o/x students who grew up
in marginalized communities and unequal school contexts and share
success stories about this growing population of students. Conchas
and Acevedo elevate the voices of students at a research university
and in the community college sector to reveal important issues and
factors impacting and shaping the students' academic journeys. The
college-age men and women in the narratives evince hope,
resistance, and empowerment in the face of marginalization,
anti-immigration sentiment, poverty, and an education system that
too often reinforces deficit-minded stereotypes. The authors
critique the educational policies and practices that systematically
fail to champion Chicana/o/x success and examine the use of
community cultural wealth that supports US-born and US immigrant
students of Mexican descent to make their achievement possible. In
so doing, the authors look toward the future by highlighting the
actions that Chicana/o/x students take in creating bridges between
K-12 to college and between their communities and higher education.
The Chicana/o/x Dream helps define the heart and soul of tomorrow's
America and elucidates how Chicana/o/x college students maintain
hope, enact resistance, and succeed against injustice. The book
offers a call to action to K-20 educators and administrators to
develop better supports to foster the success of Mexican-descent
students.
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