ERIC Number: EJ1360476
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 13
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Hispanic-Serving Institutions as Racialized Organizations: Elevating Intersectional Consciousness to Reframe the "H" in HSIs
AERA Open, v8 n1 Jan-Dec 2022
Conceptualizations of servingness must include an understanding of how racial ideologies shape Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs). Three Latinx scholars offer testimonios on our experiences as students, faculty, and researchers at teaching and research-intensive HSIs. From our testimonios, we found that practices of Blanqueamiento (Whitening of a population) and Mestizaje (racial mixture) operate at HSIs to flatten our understanding of Hispanics in U.S. society. To make sense of our testimonios within these HSI contexts and constraints, we applied an intersectional consciousness perspective on racialized organizations. Findings include Whiteness operating as a credential, legitimizing unequal resources, diminishing agency among minoritized groups, and continued use of Mestizaje (disguised as Hispanic) as a prevailing ideology. We provide considerations for HSI leaders, researchers, and administrators to elevate their intersectional consciousness and disrupt how HSIs contribute to essentialist notions of Latinxs.
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Minority Serving Institutions, Intersectionality, Student Experience, Teaching Experience, Race, Ideology, College Students, College Faculty, Racism, African Americans, Racial Identification
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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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Data File: URL: https://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2102/10.3886/E165563V1