Thank you for your participation in the November  16, 2022
HISPANIC-SERVING INSTITUTIONS (HSI) INTERSECTIONALITY SERIES-VIRTUAL MEETING –

COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE FOR STUDENT SUCCESS

featuring
Dr.  AJ Alvero and Dr. Yazmiyn Irizarry

There is still time to register for the next virtual meeting to be held this week. 

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UPDATED SCHEDULE: We will screen a presentation by Dr. Nancy López (previously recorded and available on Youtube.com) entitled: "Can Intersectional Analysis of Graduation Advance Race-Gender-Class Equity in Higher Education? Evidence from a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) in the Southwest, National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education, March 2021) followed by live question and answer with Dr. López. See schedule below.

Abstract for Dr. López presentation

Dr. Nancy López, Professor, Sociology, Director & Co-founder, Institute for the Study of “Race” & Social Justice will present on her research using intersectionality for examining graduation rates at an HSI. She asks: What patterns of educational inequalities remain invisible when we report six-year undergraduate graduation rates by Hispanic origin alone, race alone, gender alone, or income or first-generation college status alone? What patterns of inequality can be revealed when distinct combinations of intersecting race-gender-income or first-generation college status as social locations are employed to examine inequalities in higher education? How is the simultaneity of race/structural racism, settler colonialism, gender relations/patriarchy and class/capitalism experienced differently by students according to their lived position in intersecting systems of power, privilege, oppression and resistance in a given institutional context?  The findings from this study have major policy implications for the future of equity-based policy making and practice in Hispanic Serving Institutions and beyond. Dr. López is is the U.S.-born daughter of Dominican immigrants, and the first in her family to have the privilege of pursuing education beyond the second grade. She is grateful for the cultural wealth her parents and family have provided her including Spanish as her first language and resistant capital. 

Dr. Leslie Luqueno, PhD candidate at Stanford University, will discuss her forthcoming chapter, “Framing the Future: Exploring how the Children of Latinx Immigrants Connect Past, Present, and Future during the College Decision-Making Process.”

Luqueño hails from Los Angeles, CA and holds a B.A. in Anthropology and Educational Studies from Haverford College and an M.A. in Sociology from Stanford University.

Currently, her research focuses on how the children of immigrants and their families navigate the college application process, with a special emphasis on the unique skills and knowledge sets students develop that help them survive and thrive at college institutions. Utilizing qualitative, data science, and community-based research methods, Luqueño explores how Latinx students navigate the college application process during current threats to affirmative action nationwide. Drawing from her research and experiences as a first-generation-to-college student from a working-class Mexican family, Luqueño’s presentation invites us to think about how we can tap into Latinx families’ assets and deconstruct the individualistic higher education system many students feel constrained in.

If you have any questions, please e-mail: intersectionality@unm.edu

 Thank you! 

Recommended Readings

López, N., Erwin, C., Binder, M., & Chavez, M. J. (2018). Making the invisible visible: Advancing quantitative methods in higher education using critical race theory and intersectionality. Race Ethnicity and Education, 21(2), 180-207.

Luqueño, Leslie. Forthcoming. Framing the Future: Exploring how the Children of Latinx Immigrants Connect Past, Present, and Future during their College Decision-Making Process. Supporting College Students of Immigrant Origin: New Insights from Research, Policy, and Practice (accepted for publication). 

Espino, Michelle M. Exploring the Role of Community Cultural Wealth in Graduate School Access and Persistence for Mexican American PhDs, American Journal of Education, Vol. 120, No. 4, Racial Diversity in Graduate Education (August 2014), 545-574.

WHAT IS INTERSECTIONALITY? 

“Intersectionality is a way of understanding and analyzing complexity in the world, in people, and in human experiences. The events and conditions of social and political life and the self can seldom be understood as shaped by one factor. They are shaped by many factors in diverse and mutually influencing ways. When it comes to social inequality, people’s lives and the organization of power in a given society are better understood as being shaped not by a single axis of social division, be it race or gender or class, but by many axes that work together and influence each other.…People use intersectionality as an analytic tool to solve problems that they or others around them face (Collins and Bilge 2016:2).”  

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“We caution that ‘Latino/Latina’ as a social construct must be problematized, that is complicated by differences in national origin, citizenship, race, class, and ethnicity and by the confluence of these factors. An intersectional approach acknowledges these differences and seeks to reveal and understand how they shape experience. When we use the term Latinas, it is not as a unitary term that homogenizes distinctive groups, but as a term of implicit solidarity with other U.S. groups with a Spanish colonial history and genealogical, political cultural and ethnic ties to Latin America (Baca Zinn and Zambrana 2019: 678).” 

References

Baca Zinn, M., & Zambrana, R. E. (2019). Chicanas/Latinas advance intersectional thought and practice. Gender & Society, 33(5), 677-701.

Collins, P. H., and S. Bilge. 2016. Intersectionality. Malden, MA: Polity Press. 

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CONSIDER HOW THE INSIGHTS OF INTERSECTIONALITY CAN CONTRIBUTE TO YOUR COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE FOR STUDENT SUCCESS IN HISPANIC SERVING INSTITUTIONS (HSIs)?

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WHAT 2-3 SHORT-TERM AND LONG-TERM ACTIONS CAN YOU AND YOUR COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE TAKE TO USE INTERSECTIONALITY AS TOOL FOR CRITICAL INQUIRY, REFLECTION, ACTION AND WORKING TOWARD ENDURING SYSTEM-LEVEL CHANGE FOR EQUITY TRANSFORMATIONS?

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