Identity, Social Activism, and the Pursuit of Higher Education

Susana M. Muñoz

ISBN 10: 1433125579 / ISBN 13: 9781433125577

Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Mai 2015, 2015

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Neuware -The topic of immigration has become increasingly volatile in U.S. society, and undocumented college students play a central role in mobilizing and politicizing a critical mass of activists to push forth a pro-immigration agenda, in particular the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act. The DREAM Act is the only federal legislation that would grant conditional citizenship and some financial aid assistance to undocumented students who have completed two years of college or enlist in military service. Since the DREAM Act failed to pass, undocumented students have moved from peaceful marches to acts of civil disobedience, seeking to disrupt the public discourse that positions undocumented students as living in the shadows of our system. Undocumented college students have created public forums in which they «come out» from these invisible images and pronounce themselves as «undocumented and unafraid».Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 162 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Identity, Social Activism, and the Pursuit of Higher Education
• Publisher: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Mai 2015
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1433125579
• ISBN 13: 9781433125577
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 225W x 150H x 10D millimeters 225 millimeters width by 150 millimeters height by 10 millimeters depth
• Weight: 238 grams

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Synopsis

The topic of immigration has become increasingly volatile in U.S. society, and undocumented college students play a central role in mobilizing and politicizing a critical mass of activists to push forth a pro-immigration agenda, in particular the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act. The DREAM Act is the only federal legislation that would grant conditional citizenship and some financial aid assistance to undocumented students who have completed two years of college or enlist in military service. Since the DREAM Act failed to pass, undocumented students have moved from peaceful marches to acts of civil disobedience, seeking to disrupt the public discourse that positions undocumented students as living in the shadows of our system. Undocumented college students have created public forums in which they come out from these invisible images and pronounce themselves as undocumented and unafraid.

About the Author

Susana M. Muñoz is Assistant Professor of Higher Education in the School of Education at Colorado State University. She previously served as a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. Her scholarly interests center on the experiences of underrepresented populations in higher education. Specifically, Dr. Muñoz focuses her research on issues of access, identity, and college persistence for undocumented Latina/o students, while employing perspectives such as Latino critical race theory, Chicana feminist epistemology, and college persistence theory to identify and deconstruct issues of power and inequities as experienced by these populations. She utilizes multiple research methods as mechanisms to examine these matters with the ultimate goal of informing immigration policy and higher education practices.