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Success Factors Impacting Latina/O Persistence In Higher Education Leading To Stem Opportunities, Claudia Peralta, Melissa Caspary, Diane Boothe
Success Factors Impacting Latina/O Persistence In Higher Education Leading To Stem Opportunities, Claudia Peralta, Melissa Caspary, Diane Boothe
Claudia Peralta
This study investigates how Latina/Latino youth resist, conform to, and persist in schooling, and explores their preparation for an education in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. Using Latino Critical Race Theory as a framework, evidence of the “sticky mess” of racial inequalities (Espinoza and Harris in Calif Law Rev 10:499–559, 1997) and the concept of community cultural wealth (Yosso in Race Ethn Educ 8:69–91, 2005) will be used to understand how Latina/o students successfully persist in college. Quantitative and qualitative findings collected at two public universities in 2007–2012 show that Latina/o parents play a significant role in influencing …