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ABSTRACT
Using critical race theory counterstorytelling, I tell a story about the experiences of Mexican/Mexican American/Xicanx (MMAX) undergraduate students at a private, predominantly white university in the Northeast. Drawing on in-depth interviews, participant observations, pláticas, and document analyses, I highlight the various ways MMAX students experience discrimination on campus. More specifically, discrimination and unsettledness are experienced by MMAX students through the following ways: 1) Racist Name Calling and Racial Slurs; 2) Discrimination by Professors; and 3) Class Discussions as Microaggressions. Through counterstories like this one, I argue that we can shed light on injustices while staying true to our ancestral ways of knowing and make our research accessible to communities historically excluded from academia.
Acknowledgements
This article has been made open access through support provided by Portland State University Library.
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Notes
1 Throughout this manuscript, I use Students of Color interchangeably with Mexican/Mexican American/Xicanx (MMAX) students because MMAX students fall under the broader category of Students of Color, and the participants in this study also referred to themselves as Students of Color. While this study focuses exclusively on the experiences of MMAX students, other Students of Color – specifically Black and non-MMAX Latinx students – expressed to me similar concerns about racism on campus throughout the data collection process, but I did not collect those responses for this project.
2 While Latinx encompasses a wide variety of people from Latin America and the Caribbean, including Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Dominicans, Guatemalans, Colombians, Chileans, and so on, I decided to specifically use Mexican/Mexican American/Xicanx (MMAX) because the participants specifically identified as MMAX and wanted to use that identification, and Latinx is too broad and doesn’t consider the unique ethnic-based experiences of being MMAX. Nevertheless, MMAX falls under the broader “Latinx” category, so at times, I use MMAX and Latinx interchangeably.
3 All names included in this manuscript are pseudonyms. Participant names were selected by participants.
4 Pseudonym for name of organization.
5 While there was already an established pan-Latinx student organization on campus, there were also Dominican and Puerto Rican student organizations, which allowed for Dominican and Puerto Rican students to connect with each other drawing on their shared ethnic experiences via music, food, dichos, and so on. Similarly, MMAX students in the project expressed to me that it was important to focus on their unique experiences as Mexican, Mexican American, and Xicanx students since in the Northeast MMAX students were the minority among Latinx students on campus.
6 This article was taken directly from Snow City University’s student newspaper published on November, 2016.
7 This quote was taken directly from Snow City University’s student newspaper published on November, 2016.
8 This quote was taken directly from Snow City University’s student newspaper published on November, 2016.
9 This response was taken directly from an in-depth interview conducted April 21, 2018.
10 This response was taken directly from an in-depth interview conducted April 21, 2018.
11 This response was taken directly from an in-depth interview conducted April 21, 2018.
12 This entire response was taken directly from an in-depth interview conducted April 21, 2018.
13 This entire response was taken directly from an in-depth interview conducted April 21, 2018.
14 This response was taken directly from an in-depth interview conducted January 24, 2019.
15 This entire response was taken directly from an in-depth interview conducted January 24, 2019.
16 This response was taken directly from an in-depth interview conducted April 21, 2018.
17 This response was paraphrased from a plática conducted April 19, 2019.
18 This response was paraphrased from a plática conducted April 19, 2019.
19 This response was taken directly from a plática conducted April 19, 2019.
20 This entire response was taken directly from a plática conducted April 19, 2019.
21 This sentence was taken directly from an interview conducted January 24, 2019.
22 This response was taken directly from an interview conducted January 24, 2019.
23 This entire response was taken directly from an interview conducted January 24, 2019.
24 This response was taken directly from an interview conducted February 6, 2019.
25 This entire response was taken directly from an interview conducted February 6, 2019.
26 This response was taken directly from an interview conducted May 12, 2018.
27 This response was taken directly from an interview conducted May 12, 2018.
28 This response was taken directly from an interview conducted May 9, 2018.
29 This response was taken directly from an interview conducted May 9, 2018.
30 This response was taken directly from an interview conducted May 12, 2018.
31 This entire response was taken directly from an interview conducted October 23, 2018.
32 This response was taken directly from an interview conducted May 18, 2018.
33 This response was taken directly from an interview conducted May 12, 2018.
34 This response was taken directly from an interview conducted May 12, 2018.
35 This response was taken directly from an interview conducted May 12, 2018.
36 This response was taken directly from an interview conducted April 18, 2019.
37 This response was taken directly from an interview conducted April 18, 2019.
38 This response was taken directly from an interview conducted April 18, 2019.
39 This response was taken directly from an interview conducted April 18, 2019.
40 This response was taken directly from an interview conducted October 23, 2018.
41 This response was taken directly from a plática conducted April 9, 2017.
42 This response was taken directly from a plática conducted April 9, 2017.
43 This response was taken directly from a plática conducted April 9, 2017.
44 This response was taken directly from a plática conducted April 9, 2017.
45 This response was taken directly from a plática conducted April 9, 2017.
46 This response was taken directly from an interview conducted February 1, 2019.
47 This response was taken directly from an interview conducted April 18, 2019.
48 This response was taken directly from an interview conducted April 18, 2019.
49 This response was taken directly from an interview conducted April 18, 2019.
50 This response was taken directly from an interview conducted April 18, 2019.
51 This response was taken directly from an interview conducted April 18, 2019.
52 This response was taken directly from an interview conducted April 18, 2019.
53 This response was taken directly from an interview conducted April 18, 2019.
54 This response was taken directly from an interview conducted April 18, 2019.
55 This response was taken directly from an interview conducted June 02, 2018.
56 This response was taken directly from an interview conducted October 29, 2018.
57 This response was taken directly from an interview conducted October 29, 2018.
58 This response was taken directly from an interview conducted April 22, 2019.
59 This response was taken directly from an interview conducted April 22, 2019.
60 This response was taken directly from an interview conducted April 22, 2019.
61 This response was taken directly from an interview conducted April 22, 2019.
62 This response was taken directly from an interview conducted June 2, 2018.
63 This response was taken directly from an interview conducted May 18, 2018.
64 This response was taken directly from an interview conducted May 18, 2018.
65 This response was taken directly from an interview conducted April 29, 2019.
66 This response was taken directly from an interview conducted February 5, 2019.
67 This response was taken directly from a plática conducted April 9, 2017.