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[Introduction To] Clearing The Path For First-Generation College Students:Qualitative And Intersectional Studies Of Educational Mobility, Ashley C. Rondini, Bedelia N. Richards, Nicolas P. Simon

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Clearing the Path for First-Generation College Students comprises a wide range of studies that explore the multidimensional social processes and meanings germane to the experiences of first-generation college students before and during their matriculation into institutions of higher education. The chapters offer timely, empirical examinations of the ways that these students negotiate experiences shaped by structural inequities in higher education institutions and the pathways that lead to them. This volume provides insight into the dilemmas that arise from the transformation of students’ class identities in pursuit of upward mobility, as well as their quest for community and a sense of …