Disaster-Related Grief Among Latinx Undergraduates

• In Event: Sheraton Roundtable Session Ten
  In Roundtable Session: Advancing Research on Latina/o/x Undergraduate Experience (Table 18)

Abstract

Disaster preparedness is the intersection of pre and post-impact on how well individuals, communities, and institutions respond to and how quickly they recover from disaster. There is a dearth of scholarship evaluating disaster preparedness from a student’s perspective and how they grieve, which is ironic since students compromise much of the population of IHE’s. Research on disaster preparedness and disaster-related grief among undergraduate students is void of a critical analysis of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and/or class identities that intersect and contribute to navigating IHE. I employ a Chicana/Latina feminist methodology— pláticas ~testimonios— which is an intimate decolonizing methodology that centers ways of knowing and being within the Latinx community to promote individual and collective resilience, healing, and cultivates solidarity.

Author

• Nichole M. Garcia, Rutgers University
  Presenting Author