Latino-Americans: Skin Color and Mixed-Race People

Hall, Ronald E.

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“…All of the participants in the current study are considered not White. However, research shows that light‐skinned non‐White Latina/os experience more privileges, have access to more resources, and have higher status than dark‐skinned individuals (Bonilla‐Silva 2004; Hall 2010; Hunter 2007, 2016; Keith and Monroe 2016). This extends to income, occupation status, housing quality, and educational attainment (Ayala and Chalupa 2016; Bonilla‐Silva 2004; Hunter 2007, 2016; Keith and Monroe 2016; Murguia and Telles 1996; Telles and Ortiz 2008).…”

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Racial Microaggressions and Coping Mechanisms Among Latina/o College Students

Ayala

Young

2021

Sociological Forum

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This study investigates Latina/o students' experiences of racial microaggressions and how they cope with them through semi-structured and open-ended interviews with students attending a primarily White higher education institution in the Midwestern United States. Borrowing from Sue et al.'s (2007) categories of racial microaggressions and discussing their relationship to Bonilla-Silva's (2014) color-blind racism, we illustrate the diverse ways in which Latina/o college students experience racial microaggressions and how these experiences varied by gender and skin color. Addressing a gap in the literature that examines Latina/o college students' coping mechanisms, we develop a coping-mechanism typology consisting of external coping mechanisms (i.e., interest-based counterspaces and race-and ethnic-based counterspaces) and internal coping mechanisms (i.e., color-blind coping mechanism and racially cognizant coping mechanism) that may be useful for future research into how minority populations cope in a variety of settings as well as for higher education institutions that intend to increase educational attainment among Latinas/os.

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