| Title: |
Echando pa’lante: RicanStructing Puerto Rican undergraduate persistence |
| Contributors: |
Rodríguez, Merylou (author); Justice, Benjamin (chair); Collier, Joan (member); Rubin, Beth (member); Irizarry, Jason (member); Rutgers University; School of Graduate Studies |
| Publication Year: |
2023 |
| Collection: |
RUcore - Rutgers University Community Repository |
| Subject Terms: |
Higher education; Ethnic studies; Charlas; Echando Pa'lante; Persistence; Puerto Ricans; RicanStruction |
| Description: |
The experiences of Puerto Rican undergraduates are rendered virtually invisible within higher education’s monolithic discourse of Latinx/as/os/e students. As US citizens since 1898, coloniality and el vaivén between the island and Stateside US continue to shape the educational experiences of Puerto Ricans. Educational institutions have served as tools of colonization, seeking to suppress Puerto Ricans’ cultural and national identity. Deculturation practices and Americanization strategies are experienced both on the island and replicated in Puerto Ricans’ education in the US. Given that Puerto Rican education research is largely situated within the K-12 literature, this study focused on Puerto Rican students in US higher education. The study captured the narratives of 17 self-identified Puerto Rican collaborators at Rutgers University-New Brunswick (RUNB) and explored how they persisted toward their undergraduate degrees. This study included the following three findings: (1) Puerto Rican families’ propulsive role in educational attainment, (2) being on the same campus but “worlds apart,” and (3) a Puerto Rican state of mind. This research contributes to higher education literature on Puerto Rican undergraduates methodologically, conceptually, and theoretically. First, this study used Charlas methodology, which expands culturally grounded methodological approaches. Next, this study found collaborators persisted by echando pa’lante, a concept encompassing behaviors, knowledge, and attitudes toward degree attainment. Theoretically, this study proposed tenets to the latest iteration of RicanStruction Framework in higher education. Finally, this Boricuacentric research theorized Puerto Rican undergraduates’ lived and storied experiences as legitimate data. ; Ph.D. ; Includes bibliographical references |
| Document Type: |
thesis |
| File Description: |
243 pages : illustrations; application/pdf |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations; ETD; School of Graduate Studies Electronic Theses and Dissertations; rucore10001600001; http://dissertations.umi.com/gsnb.rutgers:12441 |
| Availability: |
http://dissertations.umi.com/gsnb.rutgers:12441 |
| Rights: |
The author owns the copyright to this work. |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.86183338 |
| Database: |
BASE |