What is it about?
This study shifts attention to the ways in which ethnic minority status can bolster educational attainment and highlights the significance of co-ethnic physical spaces or “enclaves” in majority white high schools.
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Why is it important?
Existing research has often conceptualized school contexts in terms of racial and socioeconomic composition, school size, and whether schools are private or public. Our study finds that Latina/o resources were actualized in co-ethnic spaces not generally captured by traditional ways of conceptualizing school context.
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Stacy Salerno is a doctoral student in sociology at Florida State University. She studies the Latino immigrant experience in education, focusing on the positive effects of co-ethnic support at school and the influence of immigrant narratives on college persistence.
Stacy L. Salerno
Florida State University
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This page is a summary of: Latina/o Students in Majority White Schools, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, August 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/2332649216663002.
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