The Counter-Storytelling and Survival of Null Curriculum, Challenges, and Experiences of Estudiantes de Doctorado Latinas

• In Event: Latinx Students Thriving: Exploring the Experiences of Latinx Students With Campus Resources

Abstract

This study focuses on integrated counterstorytelling and collaborative autoethnography techniques to synthesize the experiences of two non-traditional estudiantes de doctorado Latinas. This qualitative study is of collective selves through cafecitos and the analysis of written artifacts. We examined the diverse intersectionality of our identities within school, workplace, society, and with family. We analyzed how our cultural backgrounds, oppression, and microaggression within postsecondary studies influence these experiences and further dived into the intersectionalities to better understand how these events influence Latina’s success in higher education. Intersectionality experiences to be considered include colorism, microaggressions, isolation, sexism, racism, lack of representation, deficit-language in curriculum, and published scholarship inundated with white researchers researching and "othering" the Latina/o/x community.

Authors

• Yvette M. Regalado, University of Texas - San Antonio

• Roxana Perez, Texas State University