“You Can Go to College”: Understanding Masculinity and College Identity Construction for Young Men of Color

• In Event: Challeges in Schools: Race, Class, and Gender Perspectives

Abstract

This qualitative study of 153 low-income Black, Latino, and Asian & Pacific Islander male high school students considers how they develop their college-going and masculine identities. The findings focus identity statuses to interpret college-identity construction and how the men in this study discuss providing resources for their family, complete college, be a role model, and demonstrate strength as a form of masculinity.

Authors

• Adrian H. Huerta, University of California - Los Angeles

• Patricia M. McDonough, University of California - Los Angeles

• Walter R. Allen, University of California - Los Angeles