Debunking the Grit Narrative in Higher Education

Drawing on the Strengths of African American, Asian American, Pacific Islander, Latinx, and Native American Students

Angela M. Locks, Rocío Mendoza, Deborah Faye Carter (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

262 Seiten

2023
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-36523-7 (ISBN)

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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 Solórzano, 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.

Angela M. Locks is Executive Director for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Academic Affairs and Professor of Educational Leadership and Student Development in Higher Education at California State University, Long Beach, USA. Rocío Mendoza is Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Higher Education at the University of Redlands, USA. Deborah Faye Carter is Associate Professor of Higher Education at Claremont Graduate University, USA.

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Introduction: The Problem with Grit

Deborah Faye Carter, Rocío Mendoza, and Angela Locks

Part I: Contexts and Foundations: The Origins of Grit

Chapter 2: Critiques of Grit as a Measure of Academic Achievement in STEM Higher Education

Deborah Faye Carter, Juanita E. M. Razo Dueñas, and Rocío Mendoza

Chapter 3: Challenging Everyday Structural Racism: A Critical Race Analysis of Grit in STEM

Daniel G. Solórzano

Chapter 4: The Grit Narrative: Shifting the Gaze and the Danger

Stephanie Waterman

Chapter 5: Sometimes You’re Gritty, and Sometimes You’re Not: The Racialization of Grit for Asian Americans

Jacqueline Mac, Rikka J. Venturanza, Megan Trinh, and Varaxy Yi

Part II: College Structural Barriers and Research Studies

Chapter 6: More than Grit: Toward Critical Race College Retention and Persistence for Latina/o/x Students

Nancy Acevedo

Chapter 7: Gritty Enough?: African American Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) Student Success Factors

Melissa M. Mahoney

Chapter 8: Beyond the Bootstraps Mentality: The Fallacy of Grit as a Measure of Success for Black and Latino Men in California Community Colleges

Julio Fregoso

Part III: Educational Practices Supporting Achievement

Chapter 9: Returning to Campus: Equity Minded Approaches to Degree Completion

Sabrina K. Sanders and Su Jin Gatlin Jez

Chapter 10: A Counternarrative to Grit through Scholarship on Latinx/a/o Students and HSIs: A Systematic Review of the Literature

Kathleen Rzucidlo, Stacey R. Speller, Jorge Burmicky, and Robert T. Palmer

Chapter 11: Holo i ka ʻAuwai, Flowing with the Power of the Stream: Empowerment-Based Evaluation and Research

Anna M. Ortiz and Maenette K. P. Benham

Chapter 12: Centering the Student in Undergraduate Research as a Retention Strategy

Rocío Mendoza, Elyzza M. Aparicio, Deborah Faye Carter, and Angela M. Locks

Chapter 13 Conclusion: The Problem with Grit is White Supremacy

Rocío Mendoza, Deborah Faye Carter, and Angela Locks

Contributor Bios

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	22.11.2023
Zusatzinfo	6 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Halftones, black and white; 4 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	517 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-10	1-032-36523-4 / 1032365234
ISBN-13	978-1-032-36523-7 / 9781032365237
Zustand	Neuware