Latina/o Undergraduate Students Mentoring Latina/o Elementary Students: A Borderlands Analysis of Shifting Identities and First-Year Experiences

Autor/inn/en	Bernal, Dolores Delgado; Aleman, Enrique, Jr.; Garavito, Andrea
Titel	Latina/o Undergraduate Students Mentoring Latina/o Elementary Students: A Borderlands Analysis of Shifting Identities and First-Year Experiences
Quelle	In: Harvard Educational Review, 79 (2009) 4, S.560-585 (26 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0017-8055
Schlagwörter	Ethnic Studies; Mentors; Student Experience; Hispanic American Students; College Freshmen; Service Learning; Longitudinal Studies; Academic Persistence; Academic Achievement; Interviews; Reflection; Observation; Racial Identification; Cross Cultural Studies + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Studienerfahrung; Hispanic; Hispanic Americans; Student; Students; Hispanoamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Studienanfänger; Service-Learning; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Schulleistung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Beobachtung; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich
Abstract	This article examines the experiences of first-year Latina/o undergraduates at a predominantly white institution. Through a borderlands analysis, the authors explore how these students describe their experiences participating in an ethnic studies course and mentoring Latina/o elementary schoolchildren. The authors find that these experiences served as "sitios y lenguas" (decolonizing spaces and discourses; Perez, 1998) in which the undergraduate students were able to reflect on the ongoing transformation of their social and political identities, revealing the complex and fluid "latinidades" (Latina/o identities; Latina Feminist Group, 2001) that exist among the Latina/o university students. This article explores the physical and metaphorical borders (Anzaldua, 1987) the undergraduates occupy, navigate, and challenge while they work simultaneously as mentors in a mostly Latina/o setting and as college students on a mostly white campus. (Contains 1 table and 7 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10