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Rethinking Weidman’s Models of Socialization for Latinxs Along the Postsecondary Educational Pipeline

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Socialization in Higher Education and the Early Career

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This chapter explores the usefulness of Weidman’s socialization models for understanding the socialization of Latinx undergraduate and graduate students. Through a review of existing literature on Latinx undergraduate and graduate students’ integration, adjustment, and socialization, and through the lens of Latino Critical Theory (LatCrit), we highlight the ways in which Latinxs experience racist socializing contexts along the postsecondary educational pipeline and how this negatively affects their socialization process. Then, through the lens of Community Cultural Wealth (CCW), we highlight how Latinxs’ background and dispositions serve as assets as they navigate the white normative contexts of higher education. Based on this review, we challenge and rethink the Weidman models, offering theoretical suggestions for making them more applicable to the experiences of Latinxs along the postsecondary pipeline. We also offer a revised model that considers white supremacy as an underlying driving force in the socialization of Latinxs. We also add various forms of community cultural wealth to the model, and propose alternative, empowering socialization outcomes for Latinxs.

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  1. 1.

    We intentionally capitalize “Students of Color,” “People of Color,” and all forms as a way to acknowledge and center racially minoritized people within our research and writing.

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    We use the term “Latinx” as a gender inclusive term for people who self-identify as having racial and ethnic roots in Latin America, South America, Mexico, and parts of the Caribbean. Latinxs are connected by colonization, geography, and culture, yet they are a heterogeneous and complex group of people.

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    We intentionally use lower case “w” to refer to the white racial group as a way to decenter whiteness in our research.

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  1. Department of Administrative and Policy Studies, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Gina A. Garcia

  2. Florida International University (FIU), Miami, FL, USA

    Jenesis J. Ramirez

  3. Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA

    Oscar E. Patrón

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Garcia, G.A., Ramirez, J.J., Patrón, O.E. (2020). Rethinking Weidman’s Models of Socialization for Latinxs Along the Postsecondary Educational Pipeline. In: Weidman, J.C., DeAngelo, L. (eds) Socialization in Higher Education and the Early Career. Knowledge Studies in Higher Education, vol 7. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33350-8_4

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