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Debunking the Grit Narrative in Higher Education : Drawing on the Strengths of African American, Asian American, Pacific Islander, Latinx, and Native American Students, PDF eBook

Debunking the Grit Narrative in Higher Education : Drawing on the Strengths of African American, Asian American, Pacific Islander, Latinx, and Native American Students PDF

Edited by Angela M. Locks, Rocio Mendoza, Deborah Faye Carter

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Debunking the Grit Narrative in Higher Education examines pressing structural issues currently impacting African American, Asian American, Pacific Islander, Latinx, and Native American students accessing college and succeeding in U.S. postsecondary environments. Drawing from asset-based work of critical race education scholars such as Yosso, Ladson-Billings, and contributing author Solorzano, the authors interrogate how systems and structures shape definitions of academic merit and grit, how these systems constrain opportunities to attain access and equitable educational outcomes, and challenge widely held beliefs that Students of Color need grit to succeed in college. Dominant narratives of educational success and failure tend to focus mostly on individual student effort. Contributing authors explore the myriad ways that institutional structures can support Students of Color utilizing their strengths through critical perspectives, asset-based, anti-deficit perspectives to access postsecondary environments and experience success. Scholars, scholar-practitioners, students affairs professionals, and educational leaders will benefit from this timely edited book as they work to transform postsecondary institutions into entities that meet the needs of Students and Communities of Color.

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