Using Homeplace to Examine the Relationship Between Compañerismo and Space for Latino Male Graduate Students

• In Event: Latina/o Narratives, Counterstories, and Duoethnographies of Students and Faculty in Higher Education

Abstract

Recent data have highlighted significant gains in doctoral student enrollment among Latinas/os. Specifically, there has been a 71% increase in Latina/o doctoral recipients (NSF, 2016). Despite this increase, additional research is needed to understand how Latina/o students successfully navigate doctoral level education. Research has identified how Latino graduate students form a bond of compañerismo as a protective factor to achieve success (Flores & Patrón, 2021; Patrón et al., 2021). We explore two emergent themes: (1) the role of compañerismo in academic spaces and (2) compañerismo as empowerment/resistance compañerismo to create and disrupt spaces in their doctoral program as they build what hooks' (1990) refers to as homeplace.

Authors

• Osly J. Flores, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Oscar Patron, Indiana University - Bloomington

• Øscar Medina, University of Missouri - Columbia