What Does It Mean to be in an Academic Space that Doesn’t Reflect Your Cultural Background? Identidad, Empoderamiento, y Representación Latina in the Texas State MARC Program
| dc.contributor.advisor | Leake, Eric | |
| dc.contributor.author | Blanco, Clarice A. | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Zecena, Ruben | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Jackson, Rebecca | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Martinez, Aja Y. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-04-18T16:07:48Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-04-18T16:07:48Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022-05 | |
| dc.description.abstract | What does it mean to be in an academic space that doesn’t reflect you or your cultural background? As Latina/o/x students navigate higher education, they are isolated as Latina/o/x-faculty-to-Latina/o/x-student ratios continue to be unbalanced. Additionally, Latina/o/x students are preoccupied with negotiating issues on identidad management and formation as well as feeling empowered to persevere in a predominately White space. There is already a significant amount of scholarship that stress the importance of ethnic faculty representación, but most of this research is focused on K-12 education, not the university level, or does not consider Latina/o/x representación specifically. This case study seeks to understand how the lack of ethnic faculty representación in a particular place and program—the Master of Arts in Rhetoric and Composition program at Texas State University, a Hispanic-Serving Institution—affects a cohort of Latina students and how it informs (a) identidad, (b) empoderamiento, and (c) representación étnica through academic relationships, participation, and self-identification in a predominantly White academic space. To do so, I incorporate student perspectives through semi-structured interviews with the Latina MARC students enrolled in the Spring 2021 semester. | |
| dc.description.abstract | What does it mean to be in an academic space that doesn’t reflect you or your cultural background? As Latina/o/x students navigate higher education, they are isolated as Latina/o/x-faculty-to-Latina/o/x-student ratios continue to be unbalanced. Additionally, Latina/o/x students are preoccupied with negotiating issues on identidad management and formation as well as feeling empowered to persevere in a predominately White space. There is already a significant amount of scholarship that stress the importance of ethnic faculty representación, but most of this research is focused on K-12 education, not the university level, or does not consider Latina/o/x representación specifically. This case study seeks to understand how the lack of ethnic faculty representación in a particular place and program—the Master of Arts in Rhetoric and Composition program at Texas State University, a Hispanic-Serving Institution—affects a cohort of Latina students and how it informs (a) identidad, (b) empoderamiento, and (c) representación étnica through academic relationships, participation, and self-identification in a predominantly White academic space. To do so, I incorporate student perspectives through semi-structured interviews with the Latina MARC students enrolled in the Spring 2021 semester. | |
| dc.description.department | English | |
| dc.format | Text | |
| dc.format.extent | 117 pages | |
| dc.format.medium | 1 file (.pdf) | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Blanco, Clarice A. What Does It Mean to be in an Academic Space that Doesn't Reflect Your Cultural Background? Identidad, Empoderamiento, y Representación Latina in the Texas State MARC Program. 2022. Texas State University, Master’s Thesis. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10877/15660 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.subject | Latina/o/x | |
| dc.subject | Language | |
| dc.subject | Rhetoric | |
| dc.subject | Academia | |
| dc.subject | Empoderamiento | |
| dc.subject | Counterstory | |
| dc.title | What Does It Mean to be in an Academic Space that Doesn’t Reflect Your Cultural Background? Identidad, Empoderamiento, y Representación Latina in the Texas State MARC Program | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| thesis.degree.department | English | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Rhetoric and Composition | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Texas State University | |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Arts |