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ERIC Number: EJ1443755
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Sep
Pages: 10
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1086-4822
EISSN: EISSN-1536-0687
One Moment, Two Plates of Food: Dismantling the Carceral Education Pipeline through Mentorship
Robin Brandehoff
About Campus, v29 n4 p25-34 2024
For many Latinx at-promise youth, college is a critical and high-stakes form of aspirational wealth (Yosso, 2005), one that offers a path to "get out" (Brandehoff, 2020) of their current circumstances and circumvent a life of difficult choices. To get there, one must not only navigate personal and societal barriers, but also navigate graduating from high school and cultivating systems of support such as mentorships. In 2020, a qualitative study to understand the phenomena of informal mentoring took place in a rural area in a western state, demarcated by gang violence, poverty, and a largely Latinx immigrant population (Brandehoff, 2020). In this study, five rural, Latinx, gang-affiliated youth shared their stories of political, economic, and racialized oppressions that they faced and the difficult decisions they had to make growing up in a gang-impacted community. With no formal mentoring programs available to them, these youth utilized their navigational wealth (Yosso, 2005) to cultivate informal mentorships (Timpe & Lunkenheimer, 2015) with members of their family and community to help guide their choices and to find alternate endings to their once predetermined stories. This article will focus on one of these stories and offer suggestions on how community-based mentoring practices can provide at-promise youth a pathway to higher education.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; High Schools; Secondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
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