Concepts
Self-awareness of our own actions, their impacts, and how we can modify, pause, or continue our actions.
Reflexivity
(Buechler 2014)
This refers to the number of people we know in our networks and the resources they can offer us
Social capital
The way a story is presented to audiences
Framing
This animal species has less genetic variation than penguins and fruit flies
Humans
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
The study of social action and social order
Sociology
This theory from Fordham and Ogbu (1986) argued that Black and Latinx students struggled in school because of cultural attitudes that undervalued education.
Oppositional culture
(since debunked countless times)
Sets of stereotypes used against Latin Americans, especially migrants, in the U.S. media.
Latino Threat Narrative
(Chavez 2008)
A system that distributes advantages and disadvantages based on the lightness or darkness of skin color and other phenotypic traits.
Colorism
Hordge-Freeman and Veras (2020)
After this war, Mexicans became outsiders in what had once been their own lands. Mexicans faced intense legal disenfranchisement, land dispossession, and vigilante violence in the period following this war.
Mexican-American War
A biological myth with a social reality
Race
These minority-serving institutions enroll about 64% of Latinxs enrolled in higher education in the United States.
Hispanic Serving Institutions
A theoretical perspective that arose out of critical legal studies in the 1970s.
Critical Race Theory
According to Mai Ngai (2004) these three things are social constructs shaped by public policy.
Citizenship status
Legal Status
Race
A temporary labor program that recruited 4.6 million guest workers from Mexico between 1942 and 1964. Many of the guest workers, including those who were documented, would later be deported in mass by the Eisenhower administration.
Bracero program
This dominant form of racial logic in the United States overlooks, ignores, or downplays racial inequalities; argues that race consciousness is harmful; and sees polices addressing racial inequalities as unfair or discriminatory.
Colorblind logic
(aka Colorblindness or colorblind racism or colorblind racial ideology)
Unlike other Minority serving institutions, these institutions have no required institutional mission to support students of color.
Hispanic Serving Institutions
This concept refers to the depiction of Latinxs as patriotic, family-oriented, hard workers, and model consumers. It presents Latinxs in a homogenized way and argues that they be treated equally because they have assimilated to White middle-class norms.
Latino spin
Natalia Molina (2012) describes this as the relational notions of race that shape racial categorization.
Racial scripts
According to Ngai (2004), this is a social construction in result of immigration policy.
Legality / Legal status / "legal" vs "illegal" / "illegal alien"
Sociologists use this term to describe the cultural competence we gain through media exposure.
Media socialization
According to Villas and Villa-Palomino (2019), most HSIs in their study adopted this logic in applying for grant funding.
Colorblind logic
Modern day stereotypes of Latinxs as drug dealers and gang bangers evolved from this stereotype that was associated with Mexicans who resisted American settler colonialism.
Bandito (bandit)
Modeled off of the Black Panthers, this group of organized Puerto Ricans used racial and ethnic categorization as a source of empowerment and solidarity.
The Young Lords
According to Ngai (2004), this newly constructed immigration status served to exclude and racialize Mexicans and Mexican Americans living in the United States.
"Illegal" or "Illegal alien"