Black and Latino adolescent boys and young men from low-income communities face numerous perceived and actual barriers to achieving their postsecondary educational goals. To advocate for more precise interventions, this study investigated how black and Latino eleventh grade boys’ college ambitions were shaped by their school’s college-going culture, racial stereotyping, and their families’ economic marginalization. Drawing from social cognitive theory, the author examined the boys’ college-going dilemmas as internal (e.g., participants’ self-assessments of their academic [un]preparedness and [un]ease about making new friends) and external (e.g., concerns about affording college, given limited financial resources and familial responsibilities).

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我够聪明吗？我会交朋友吗？我能负担得起吗？探索黑人和拉丁裔青少年男孩的大学生活困境

来自低收入社区的黑人和拉丁裔青少年男孩和年轻男性在实现其高等教育目标方面面临着许多感知和实际障碍。为了倡导更精确的干预措施，这项研究调查了黑人和拉丁裔 11 年级男孩的大学抱负如何受到他们学校的大学文化、种族刻板印象和他们家庭的经济边缘化的影响。作者从社会认知理论出发，将男孩的大学困境分为内部（例如，参与者对其学术[未]准备和[不]结交新朋友的难易程度的自我评估）和外部（例如，担心鉴于有限的财政资源和家庭责任，可以负担得起大学费用）。