Are We Ready?: A Review of Getting College Ready: Latin@ Student Experiences of Race, Access, and Belonging at Predominantly White Universities

Authors

Jung Eun Hong, University of West GeorgiaFollow

Abstract

Getting College Ready: Latin@ Student Experiences of Race, Access, and Belonging at Predominantly White Universities by Julie Minikel-Lacocque describes the pre-college and college experiences of six Latin@ college students (four female and two male) at a specifically predominantly White flagship higher education institution in the Midwest United States. By delivering those six Latin@ students’ voices through the author’s interpretation based on the lens of Critical Race Theory, she presented their challenges applying to college, maintaining enrollment, and being successful at the college as underrepresented minority students, most of whom were first-generation college students. The author also discussed effective ways to help those students become successful college students.

Keywords

Latin@ Students, Underrepresented Students, Critical Race Theory, Higher Education

Author Bio(s)

Jung Eun Hong is an associate professor of geography in the Department of Geosciences at the University of West Georgia, Carrollton, Georgia, USA. Correspondence regarding this article can be addressed directly to: jhong@westga.edu or Jung Eun Hong, Department of Geosciences, The University of West Georgia, 1601 Maple Street, Carrollton, GA 30118.

Publication Date

1-6-2019

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.

DOI

10.46743/2160-3715/2019.3906

Recommended APA Citation

Hong, J. (2019). Are We Ready?: A Review of Getting College Ready: Latin@ Student Experiences of Race, Access, and Belonging at Predominantly White Universities. The Qualitative Report, 24(1), 55-57. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2019.3906