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- Learning to Be Latino: How Colleges Shape Identity Politics
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: Rutgers University Press
- Series: Critical Issues in American Education
summary
In Learning to Be Latino, sociologist Daisy Verduzco Reyes paints a vivid picture of Latino student life at a liberal arts college, a research university, and a regional public university, outlining students’ interactions with one another, with non-Latino peers, and with faculty, administrators, and the outside community. Reyes identifies the normative institutional arrangements that shape the social relationships relevant to Latino students’ lives, including school size, the demographic profile of the student body, residential arrangements, the relationship between students and administrators, and how well diversity programs integrate students through cultural centers and retention centers. Together these characteristics create an environment for Latino students that influences how they interact, identify, and come to understand their place on campus.
Drawing on extensive ethnographic observations, Reyes shows how college campuses shape much more than students’ academic and occupational trajectories; they mold students’ ideas about inequality and opportunity in America, their identities, and even how they intend to practice politics.
Drawing on extensive ethnographic observations, Reyes shows how college campuses shape much more than students’ academic and occupational trajectories; they mold students’ ideas about inequality and opportunity in America, their identities, and even how they intend to practice politics.
Table of Contents
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- Part One. University Institutional Contexts
- 3. Conflict at Research University
- pp. 35-60
- Part Two. Student Interactions and Meaning-Making
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 177-180
- References
- pp. 185-188
- About the Author
- pp. 197-198
Additional Information
ISBN
9780813596501
Related ISBN(s)
9780813596464, 9780813596471, 9780813596488, 9780813596495
MARC Record
OCLC
1052875024
Pages
212
Launched on MUSE
2018-09-22
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2018