ERIC Number: EJ869712
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2009
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Challenging Racist Nativist Framing: Acknowledging the Community Cultural Wealth of Undocumented Chicana College Students to Reframe the Immigration Debate
Perez Huber, Lindsay
Harvard Educational Review, v79 n4 p704-729 Win 2009
Using the critical race "testimonios" of ten Chicana undergraduate students at a top-tier research university, Lindsay Perez Huber interrogates and challenges the racist nativist framing of undocumented Latina/o immigrants as problematic, burdensome, and "illegal." Specifically, a community cultural wealth framework (Yosso, 2005) is utilized and expanded to highlight the rich forms of capital existing within the families and communities of these young women that have allowed them to survive, resist, and navigate higher education while simultaneously challenging racist nativist discourses. Reflecting on her data and analysis, Perez Huber ends with a call for a human rights framework that demands the right of all students--and particularly Latinas/os--to live full and free lives. (Contains 4 figures and 9 notes.)
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Research Universities, Females, Immigrants, Civil Rights, Social Bias, Undocumented Immigrants, Critical Theory, Cognitive Structures, Labeling (of Persons), Paying for College, Social Networks, Student Motivation, Educational Attainment
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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