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ERIC Number: EJ1431094
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 28
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1080-5400
EISSN: EISSN-2164-7399
"Why You Always so Political?" A Counterstory about Educational-Environmental Racism at a Predominantly White University
Martín Alberto Gonzalez
Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education, v22 n1 Article 7 p64-89 2023
Using critical race counterstorytelling, I tell a story about the experiences of Mexican/Mexican American/Xicanx (MMAX) undergraduate students at a private, historically and predominantly white university in the Northeast of the United States. Drawing on in-depth interviews, participant observations, pla´ticas, document analyses, and literature on race and space and racism in higher education, I argue that the racially hostile campus environment experienced by MMAX students at their respective university manifests itself as a form of educational-environmental racism. Through narrated dialogue, Aurora (a composite character) and I delve into a critical conversation about how educational-environmental racism is experienced by MMAX students through a racialized landscape in the following ways: (1) Discriminatory Objects and Symbols on Campus; (2) Glorification of Historical Trauma; and (3) Lack of Physical Representation and Cultural Deprivation.
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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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