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How Students Think About Race: Exploring Racial Conceptions and Their Implications for Student Success Among Latino Male Community College Students
Author(s) -
Abrica Elvira J.,
Dorsten Amanda K.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
new directions for community colleges
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1536-0733
pISSN - 0194-3081
DOI - 10.1002/cc.20388
Subject(s) - conceptualization , race (biology) , community college , identity (music) , curriculum , psychology , institution , psychological intervention , empirical research , pedagogy , social identity theory , gender studies , sociology , social psychology , medical education , social group , social science , medicine , physics , artificial intelligence , psychiatry , computer science , acoustics , philosophy , epistemology
This chapter describes the importance of students’ conceptualizations of race, defined as the abstract ideas that students have about race as well as how they express these ideas as influencing their own experience or that of the social identity group(s) to which they belong. Empirical findings from a study of racial conceptualization among Latino male community college students attending a 2‐year Hispanic Serving Institution in Southern California are presented. Implications of racial conceptualization for programmatic interventions and curriculum development are discussed.