Description
Book SynopsisIn Learning to be Latino, Reyes paints a vivid picture of Latino student life, 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 on these campuses.
Trade Review“Reyes artfully weaves the personal narratives of her subjects into an engaging and clear argument about the role of institutional contexts and organizations for shaping student perspectives and actions.”
-- Irenee Beattie * University of California at Merced *
"In
Learning to be Latino, Daisy Reyes contributes to the exciting 'campus turn' in higher education research. Going deep into the texture of three universities, Reyes shows how institutional context influences Latino students’ understandings of their lives and politics, and their broader interpretations of the world." -- Amy Binder * University of California San Diego *
"‘Learning to Be Latino’ QA with Daisy Verduzco Reyes," by Emma Whitford * Chronicle of Higher Education *
"Selected New Books in Higher Education" * Chronicle of Higher Education *
"A ‘Hidden Curriculum’ for Latino Students," feature by Peter Monaghan * Chronicle of Higher Education *
"With an engaging writing style, this well-researched book has a lot to offer a general audience and is a great addition to courses on the Latino experience, race and higher education, and political socialization." * AAUP.org *
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Learning to Be Latino serves as an example of how we can learn about institutions of higher education and a sociology of higher education in general by way of Latino students, although, to be sure, many findings are distinct to Latino students.
Through Learning to Be Latino, Reyes questions taken-for-granted ideas and concepts in the sociology of race and higher education such as student groups, the critical consciousness of racially marginalized groups, and even college itself." * American Journal of Sociology *
Table of ContentsPreface ix
1 Higher Education and Latino Students 1
PART ONE
University Institutional Contexts
2 The Communal Bubble at Liberal Arts College 15
3 Conflict at Research University 35
4 Coexisting at Regional Public University 61
PART TWO
Student Interactions and Meaning-Making
5 Who We Are: (Pan)ethnic Identity and Boundary Formation 81
6 What We Do: Defining and Performing Latino Politics 113
7 Where We Are Going: Ideas about Racial Inequality and Mobility 137
8 How Higher Education Teaches Disparate Lessons to Latinos 157
Methodological Appendix: Studying Student Organizations in Multiple Institutions 169
Acknowledgments 177
Notes 181
References 185
About the Author 189
Index
