ERIC Number: EJ1324060
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 13
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ISSN: EISSN-2332-8584
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"If We Don't Do It, Nobody Is Going to Talk about It": Indigenous Students Disrupting Latinidad at Hispanic-Serving Institutions
AERA Open, v7 n1 Jan-Dec 2021
Hispanic and Latinx are terms that conflate ethnicity, race, and nationality and complicate our ability to generalize what it means for Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs) to serve such a diverse student population. Latinidad has also privileged mestizo narratives that obscure enduring colonialities of power and perpetuate the invisibility of Indigenous Peoples. Conceptually framed by Critical Latinx Indigeneities, this study documents the testimonios of 10 Indigenous Mixtec/Ñuu Savi, Zapotec, and Nahua students at HSIs in California. I highlight issues of racialization and Indigenous misrepresentation within Latinx-centered curricula and programming and the ways participants engaged in fugitive acts of learning to claim new forms of visibility on campus. The findings raise important implications for HSIs, including Latinx programming that disrupts colonial perspectives and creates more nuanced understandings of diasporic Indigeneity within Latinx communities.
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Minority Serving Institutions, American Indian Students, Indigenous Populations, Ethnicity, Racial Bias, Student Experience, College Students
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: California
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