Book chapter
65Deep Roots: The Rural Latina/o College Experience
Race and Rurality, pp.65-81
Routledge, 1
2024
DOI: 10.4324/9781003446620-8
Abstract
We are project collaborators engaged with one rural community in the Midwest and draw from critical participatory research to understand in what ways rurality and race intersect (Fine & Torre, 2021). While race and urban areas are topics more often associated with each other, it is less common to raise questions that explore race and rurality. The prevailing stereotyped visions situated in a romantic heartland—where residents lead simple lives free of stress in placid places removed from the artifice of the real world—result in harm and only further misconceptions about rural lives, the perception of majority white residents, and race. Because myths and stereotypes have continued to dominate rural research and representations of rural spaces, we contend these myths enhance rural invisibility—its people and places. In this chapter, we explain how invisibility and misunderstandings concerning what is rural and the presence of race can ultimately lead to deficit discourses. These myths give way to limited imaginations of race in rural areas, and in the end, marginalize residents and the rich differences that exist and have existed for generations.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- 65Deep Roots: The Rural Latina/o College Experience
- Creators
- Carolyn ColvinRichard BarajasElia FariasGabriela Rivera
- Contributors
- Tyler Hallmark (Editor)Sonja Ardoin (Editor)Darris R. Means (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Race and Rurality, pp.65-81
- Edition
- 1
- Publisher
- Routledge; New York
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781003446620-8
- Alternative title
- Deep Roots
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2024
- Academic Unit
- Teaching and Learning
- Record Identifier
- 9984465559102771
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