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Publication Date: 2020
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Lifting While We Climb: Undergraduate Students of Color Communal Uplift and Promotion of College-Going within Their Communities
Luedke, Courtney L.
Review of Higher Education, v43 n4 p1167-1192 Sum 2020
This critical qualitative study examines the ways first-generation Students of Color (Latina/o/x, African American, Native American, and biracial) at two predominantly White institutions in the Midwest activate their college knowledge, or cultural capital, to assist youth from their communities in viewing higher education as a viable option. In sharing cultural capital, participants are actively attempting to influence the habitus of youth of Color. By encouraging the pursuit of higher education, participants in this study were engaging in communal uplift. Findings reveal the need for colleges and universities to acknowledge, validate and support underrepresented students in their communal uplift efforts.
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Minority Group Students, African American Students, Hispanic American Students, American Indian Students, Multiracial Persons, First Generation College Students, Cultural Capital, Social Capital, Sharing Behavior, Collectivism, Role Models, Peer Relationship, Academic Aspiration, Social Support Groups, Access to Education, Prosocial Behavior
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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