ABSTRACT

This edited volume examines the diverse Latinx/a/o student populations in higher education. Offering innovative approaches to understand the asset-based contributions of Latinx/a/o students and the communities they come from, this book showcases scholars from various disciplines, including, psychology, sociology, higher education, history, gender studies, and beyond. Chapter authors argue that various forms of knowledge and culturally relevant methodologies can help advance and promote the success and navigation of Latinx/a/o students. The contributors of this book challenge the deficit framing often found in higher education, and expand conceptualizations, theories, and methodologies used in the study of Latinx/a/o student populations to incorporate AfroLatinx/a/o perspectives, center Central American students in research, and bring Undocumented Critical Theory into the conversation.

This important work provides a guide for higher education and student affairs scholars and practitioners, helping create knowledge to better understand Latinx/a/o student populations in higher education.

chapter 5|12 pages

Advancing Asset-Based Practices for Latinx/a/o College Students

The Application of Community Cultural Wealth Theory

chapter 6|11 pages

“Dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres”

Theories and Methodologies that Center Latinx/a/o Epistemologies and Pedagogies

chapter 8|15 pages

Ganas as a Praxis

Cultural Responsiveness in Latinx/a/o Higher Education Success

chapter 9|15 pages

Trenzudas, Truchas, and Traviesas

Mapping Higher Education Through a Chicana Feminist Cartography

chapter 10|16 pages

Rupturing from the Black–White Racial Binary

AfroLatina/o/x Bridging the Black–Brown Divide

chapter 11|12 pages

Centering Central American Students in Higher Education Research

A Proposal for Central American Student Self-Report (CASSR)

chapter 14|13 pages

A Futurity of Jotería Studies and Higher Education Research

Epistemological and Theoretical Shifts