More Than "Papelitos": A QuantCrit Counterstory to Critique Latina/o Degree Value and Occupational Prestige

• In Event: 31.016 - Reconsidering methodological and theoretical perspectives in research on students of color across diverse education contexts

Abstract

Concerned with how numbers are misused and distorted in research and public discourse at the expense of People of Color, we pose the question, “How do we use numbers to tell the stories of Communities of Color?” We explore a critical race (re)imagining of quantitative methods to center and extend the commitments of critical race scholarship. Specifically, we employ the tools of cultural intuition and groundtruthing to examine educational attainment and occupational outcomes of Communities of Color generally, and Latinas/os specifically, in order to challenge dominant narratives of postsecondary degree ‘value’ and occupational ‘prestige.

Authors

• Lindsay Perez Huber, California State University - Long Beach

• Verónica Nelly Vélez, Western Washington University

• Daniel Gilbert Solorzano, University of California - Los Angeles