What is it about?
The article examines how Chicano students engage code-switching, that is different personas, to persist through a predominantly white four-year institution.
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Why is it important?
Educators need to better understand how students from different backgrounds adjust to the environment.
Perspectives
Code-Switching helps those who feel they are at the margins to persist through a dominant culture environment. The article also shows how Chicano students strive to maintain their culture while resisting prejudice in the educational environment.
Leah P. Hollis
Rutgers University New Brunswick
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This page is a summary of: Cultural code-Switching and Chicana/O post-secondary student persistence: A hermeneutic phenomenological analysis, Journal of Latinos and Education, July 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/15348431.2018.1499516.
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