ABSTRACT

This study examines how Latina students attending a predominantly white university in the Pacific Northwestern United States describe their academic and social wellbeing in relation to their racial subjectivities and the racially-charged campus interactions they have experienced. Critical Race Theory and Latina/o Critical Race Theory help us interpret how these students assert the authenticity of their identities in ways that either validate or contest the whiteness that tacitly frames so many aspects of their academic and social lives. These findings open a conversation on a subject that is taboo within Latinx communities and largely invisible within Predominantly White Institutions: how simultaneous claims to Latinx belonging and white privilege play into systemic racism on campus and throughout the U.S.

摘要

本研究调查了在美国太平洋西北地区一所白人为主的大学就读的拉丁裔学生如何描述他们的学术和社会福祉与其种族主体性以及他们所经历的充满种族色彩的校园互动的关系。批判种族理论和拉丁裔/o批判种族理论帮助我们解释这些学生如何以验证或质疑白人身份的方式来断言其身份的真实性，而白人身份默认构成了他们学术和社交生活的许多方面。这些发现开启了一场关于拉丁裔社区内的禁忌话题的对话，这个话题在以白人为主的机构中基本上是不可见的：同时主张拉丁裔归属感和白人特权如何演变成校园和整个美国的系统性种族主义