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Publication of this article in an open access journal was funded by the Portland State University Library’s Open Access Fund.
Published In
Journal of Latinos and Education
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-19-2023
Subjects
Race discrimination, Discrimination in education -- United States, Education -- Social aspects -- United States, Equity, Social justice, Storytelling
Abstract
Using critical race theory counterstorytelling, I tell a story about the experiences of Mexican/Mexican American/Xicanx (MMAX) undergraduate students at a private, predominantly white university in the Northeast. Drawing on in-depth interviews, participant observations, pláticas, and document analyses, I highlight the various ways MMAX students experience discrimination on campus. More specifically, discrimination and unsettledness are experienced by MMAX students through the following ways: 1) Racist Name Calling and Racial Slurs; 2) Discrimination by Professors; and 3) Class Discussions as Microaggressions. Through counterstories like this one, I argue that we can shed light on injustices while staying true to our ancestral ways of knowing and make our research accessible to communities historically excluded from academia.
Rights
© 2023 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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DOI
10.1080/15348431.2022.2152818
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/39147
Citation Details
Martín Alberto Gonzalez (2023): “It Snows Year-Round Here”: A Counterstory about Mexican/Mexican American/Xicanx Students’ Experiences with Racism at a Predominantly White University in the Northeast, Journal of Latinos and Education, DOI: 10.1080/15348431.2022.2152818