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Kiyama, Judy Marquez – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2018
Upon transition to higher education, Latinas face obstacles including cultural stereotypes, limited financial resources, racist campus climates, family responsibilities, being first generation college students, and cultural incongruities. Despite obstacles, Latinas exhibit college aspirations and goals. This article centers Latinas' messages…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Females, Ethnic Stereotypes, Barriers
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Martinez-Vogt, Emily – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2017
This theoretical paper is based on a larger study focused on understanding the experiences of Latina community college students. The purpose of this paper is to expand upon the Silence to Resilience Model, which involves four phases that Latinas encounter upon or throughout their transition to community college including: (1) Racism on campus, (2)…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Females, Two Year College Students, Resilience (Psychology)
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Martinez-Vogt, Emily – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2015
Latina community college students experience a number of challenges during their transition to college. Findings from a larger study indicated that Latina community college students experienced racism and stereotyping on campus responding with silence. Silence occurred in two ways: (1) Latinas were forced to be silent, and/or (2) Latinas chose to…
Descriptors: Two Year College Students, Community Colleges, Hispanic American Students, Racial Bias
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Harper, Shaun R. – Urban Education, 2015
The overwhelming majority of published scholarship on urban high schools in the United States focuses on problems of inadequacy, instability, underperformance, and violence. Similarly, across all schooling contexts, most of what has been written about young men of color continually reinforces deficit narratives about their educational possibility.…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, High School Students, Males, Adolescents
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Qin, Desiree Boalian; Way, Niobe; Mukherjee, Preetika – Youth & Society, 2008
The image of the model minority dominates scholarly and public discourse on Asian American children and adolescents. However, recent research has shown that despite their high levels of educational achievement Asian American students report poor psychological and social adjustment. Using an ecological framework, this article sought to explore the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Social Adjustment, Chinese Americans, Asian American Students
Rosenshein, Joel; Ribner, Sol – 1973
Poverty in New York City has been studied but never the specific problem of the Jewish minority groupings. The present study was geared towards presenting the incidences of poverty within the Jewish population in New York City and in presenting the beginning sociological picture of poverty among Jews. The study went through three phases. A first…
Descriptors: Community Surveys, Economically Disadvantaged, Ethnic Groups, Ethnic Stereotypes