Campus counterspaces : Black and Latinx students' search for community at historically White universities /

Keels, Micere,

Campus counterspaces : Black and Latinx students' search for community at historically White universities / Micere Keels. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (ix, 224 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

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 / Strategic disengagement : preserving one's academic identity by disengaging from campus life / Power in the in midst of powerlessness : scholar-activist identity amid racially and ethnically motivated violence / Importance of a critical mass : experiencing one's differences as valued diversity rather than a marginalized threat / Finding one's people and one's self on campus : the role of extracurricular organizations / Split between school, home, work, and more : commuting as a status and a way of being / Out of thin air : when one's academic identity is not simply an extension of one's family identity / A guiding hand : advising that connects with students' culturally situated motivational orientations toward college / (Dis)integration : facilitating integration by carefully attending to difference. with Resney Gugwor -- with Ja'Dell Davis -- with Elan Hope -- with Carly Offidani-Bertrand -- with Gabriel Velez -- with Hilary Tackie and Elan Hope -- with Emily Lyons -- with Tasneem Mandviwala --

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



9781501746895 9781501746901

2019022247


African American college students--Attitudes.
Hispanic American college students--Attitudes.
African Americans--Race identity.
Hispanic Americans--Ethnic identity.
Group identity--United States.
College student orientation--United States.


Electronic Books.

LC2781 / .C367 2019