Socializing Latinx Youth Into Relations of Success

• In Event: 47.095 - MTCC Roundtable Session 19
  In Roundtable Session: 47.095-1 - Engaged Youth, Activist Youth: Perspectives for Youth-Centered Praxis

Abstract

The passage of California’s Proposition 209 in 1996 eliminated race-based considerations for admissions led to the expansion of college preparation programs aimed at Latinx youth as the largest, fastest-growing, and most educationally underserved group in California. This paper considers economic, social, linguistic, and migrational vulnerabilities alongside the possibility that while educational success may offer stability to degree earners and their families, increasing numbers of college-educated people of color do not necessarily translate to a more equitable society. This ethnographic project integrates critical place inquiry and language socialization studies to examine how Latinx youth and their families accept and reject, embody and (re)purpose socialization into the pathways to success and accompanying political stances offered them by one such college preparation program.

Author

• Theresa Burruel Stone, Sonoma State University