Low‐income, first‐generation, and/or working‐class students (LIFGWC) attending selective colleges and universities must navigate class‐dominant spaces, often encountering microaggressions. In this paper, we examine how LIFGWC students support themselves and one another by analyzing the efforts of campus groups focused on LIFGWC students’ needs. We draw on the framework of counterspaces to show the provision of both peer‐to‐peer social connection and the creation of new services for LIFGWC students, such as career advising. We refer to these latter efforts as counterstructures. We introduce this term to highlight the structural location of these efforts and the ways that students are doing work that the college—whether in the form of administrators, staff, or faculty—typically should be doing. We contribute both to the understanding of ways that selective campuses underserve LIFGWC students and to research on the use of counterspaces in providing support in majority/minority spaces.

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反向空间，反向结构：选择性大学的低收入，第一代和工人阶级学生同伴支持

进入精选大学的低收入，第一代和/或工人阶级学生（LIFGWC）必须在班级主导的空间中导航，经常遇到微攻击。在本文中，我们通过分析关注LIFGWC学生需求的校园小组的努力，研究LIFGWC学生如何自我支持以及彼此支持。我们利用反向空间的框架来展示对等社会联系的提供以及为LIFGWC学生提供的新服务，例如职业咨询。我们将这些后期的努力称为反结构。我们引入该术语是为了强调这些工作的结构性位置以及学生通常是大学应该采取的工作方式（无论是管理员，员工还是教职员工）。