Undergraduate Honors Thesis

 

NO SOY GÜERO, SOY LATINO: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH TO RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AGAINST ‘WHITE-LOOKING LATINXS’ Public Deposited

https://scholar.colorado.edu/concern/undergraduate_honors_theses/6d56zx16p
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  • This study documents the experiences of racism and discrimination that college students, staff and faculty have experienced in their K-12 education. Even though there are questions to participants about other aspects of their life and experiencing racism, the central focus will remain on experiences during K-12 education. This research and partial replication builds on the study entitled Because I’m Light Skin . . . They Think I’m Italian: Mexican Students’ Experiences of Racialization in Predominantly White Schools by Dr. Edward Fergus. This study uses a phenomenological framework for analysis, which I will also use in my partial replication, because consistent with other qualitative scholars, I believe the lived experiences of students are as crucial as numerical data. Testimonials provide a far better way of addressing the dynamics of racism and colorism than simply numbers (used in quantitative research). This is the method as to how I will be gathering data. I refer to my honors thesis as a partial replication of Fergus’s study because unlike Fergus, my focus will be on Latinx[1] students staff, and faculty. The other factor that will be changed in the study is the number of participants. Fergus interviews six Mexican students whereas I will be interviewing 7 Latinx students, staff and faculty. My findings will be analyzed and compared to each of the other participants’ testimonies. I hope that this research brings inspiration to others and for society to understand what is existent in PWIs and PWCs. [1] Latinx is a gender-neutral alternative for Latino and Latina. In culture, the term Latino has been used a plural masculinized way of addressing all Latinos and Latinas together. Many activists and scholars refer to all Latino and Latina as Latinx to be gender inclusive.
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  • 2018-01-01
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