Campus counterspaces : Black and Latinx students' search for community at historically white universities / Micere Keels.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keels, Micere, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American college students--Attitudes.

Hispanic American college students--Attitudes.

African Americans--Race identity.

Hispanic Americans--Ethnic identity.

Group identity--United States.

Group identity.

Hispanic American college students.

African American college students.

United States.

College student orientation--United States.

College student orientation.

Physical Description:

ix, 224 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019.

Summary:

"A detailed account of how racial-ethnic identity structures Black and Latinx students' college transition experiences"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Keels, Micere. Campus counterspaces.

ISBN:

9781501746888

150174688X

9781501747908

1501747908

OCLC:

1100426213