The Chicana/O/X Dream

Based on interview data, life testimonios, and Chicana feminist theories, The Chicana/o/x Dream profiles first-generation, Mexican-descent college students who have overcome adversity by utilizing various forms of cultural capital to power their academic success. The book elevates the voices of students to reveal important issues and factors impacting and shaping their academic journeys. The students evince hope, resistance, and empowerment in the face of marginalization, anti-immigration sentiment, poverty, and an education system that too often reinforces deficit-minded stereotypes. The Chicana/o/x Dream helps define the heart and soul of tomorrow's America, and offers a call to action to K-20 educators and administrators to develop better supports to foster the success of Mexican-descent students. "With a rare combination of meticulous research and heartfelt compassion, The Chicana/o/x Dream eloquently captures el alma y corazón of Chicana/o/x students. With their own strengths and ways of knowing, students manage to resist oppression, develop a critical consciousness about systemic inequities, and ultimately create their own definition of success. This is, by far, the most contemporary, justice-based portrait of the Chicana/o/x college experience." --Laura I. Rendón, professor emerita, University of Texas at San Antonio, and author of Sentipensante (Sensing/Thinking) Pedagogy "The Chicana/o/x Dream is a must-read for scholars and educators who seek to understand, support, and empower Chicana/o/x college students. It beautifully blends together testimonios of the atravesadas/os/xs in the book who have lived and survived in the borderlands of education and Gloria Anzaldúa's theoretical concepts." --Gina Ann Garcia, associate professor, University of Pittsburgh Gilberto Q. Conchas is the Wayne K. and Anita Woolfolk Hoy Professor of Education in the College of Education at Pennsylvania State University. Nancy Acevedo is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Technology at California State University, San Bernardino, and a recipient of the 2019 American Educational Research Association Latina/o/x Research Issues Emerging Scholar Award. H. Richard Milner IV is the Cornelius Vanderbilt Endowed Chair of Education at Vanderbilt University, as well as the editor for the Race and Education Series.