Understanding the Latinx Experience: Developmental and Contextual Influences

Latinx Teens: U.S. Popular Culture on the Page, Stage, and Screen

“…Subsequent stages of racial/ethnic identity development focus on meaning making of that racial/ethnic identity. Racialized individuals may struggle through making sense of racist incidents or changes in racial/ethnic composition of their environments (Torres, Hernandez, and Martinez 2019). Once again, this maps nicely to the following chapters on film, young adult literature, and theatre, since the authors spend more time analyzing how Latinx teens portrayed in these genres experience shifts or evaluations of their identities.…”

Entre Ser y No Ser: Identity development negotiations of queer Latinx/a/o college student activists.

“…For queer Latinx/a/o college students, having multiple minoritized identities entangles their identity development while working to resist systems of oppression including, but not limited to, queer antagonism, racism, sexism, and patriarchy (Patro ´n, 2023; Revilla & Rangel-Medina, 2011;Torres, Hernández, & Martinez, 2019). Scholars like Revilla (2009Revilla ( , 2010 have written about how student activist spaces and the practice of activism allowed Latinas and Chicanas to explore their queer identities.…”

The Role of Grand/Mothers’ Ways of Knowing in West Coast Latina Students’ Collegiate Experiences

“…that is, development or identity is in constant motion with no predetermined end point and therefore impossible to hold up for scrutiny. (p. 3) Of interest in our study, third-wave theories center the epistemologies of communities of color though, currently, few cognitive theories assume a third-wave orientation for Latinx/a/o college students (refer to Torres et al [18], for an exception).…”