Empowering and Supporting Young Men of Color Through the Pre-K–20 Pipeline

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This interdisciplinary symposium aims to extend research on African American and Latino males throughout the P-20 educational pipeline. Using various methodological approaches (ethnography, interviews and observations), the authors explore the experiences of African American and Latinos males across different educational context. The papers in this session push our understanding about how school and community spaces can shape educational opportunity for students and the different stakeholders who can empower them. The authors also ask the audience to consider the different spaces that young men of color occupy and the purpose that they can serve towards empowering young men of color.

Sub Unit

• Committee on Scholars and Advocates for Gender Equity in Education

Chair

• Richard J. Reddick, The University of Texas at Austin

Papers

• Will You Serve? Mentoring Young Men of Color to Improve Attendance - Joshua Childs, The University of Texas at Austin

• A Tale of Two Schools: Disrupting the Educational Pathways of Latino Males - Eligio Martinez, California State Polytechnic University - Pomona

• "Whatever You Become, Be Proud": Familial Influences on Black and Latino Boys' Postsecondary Future Selves - Roderick L. Carey, University of Delaware

• "It Was All a Dream": Reflections on the College Pathways of First- and Second-Generation Latino Male College-Goers - Adrian H. Huerta, University of Southern California; Edgar Fidel Lopez, University of Southern California

Discussant

• Cristobal Rodriguez, Arizona State University