A critically conscious approach to fostering the success of college students from underrepresented groups

Over the past decade, many student affairs professionals have turned their attention to non-cognitive factors that can play a role in supporting students from underrepresented groups in making it to and through college. The work in this area that has gotten the most attention in recent years has focused on students’ sense of belonging and efficacy. In this article, the authors begin by acknowledging the numerous strengths of belonging-centered and efficacy-centered approaches to fostering college student success but also argue that these approaches are incomplete. They posit that a more critically conscious approach to fostering college-going success can deepen participating college students’ sense of purpose and, in so doing, increase their likelihood of successful college completion

Spartan Daily, October 12, 1981

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Spartan Daily, October 12, 1981

Volume 77, Issue 28https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/6804/thumbnail.jp

Spartan Daily, October 12, 1981

Volume 77, Issue 28https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/6804/thumbnail.jp

Spartan Daily, October 12, 1981

Volume 77, Issue 28https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/6804/thumbnail.jp

J.R.R. Tolkien: The Achievement of His Literary Life

An overview of Tolkien’s achievements in both fiction and scholarship, and an account of their work on editing the posthumous children’s story Roverandom

The Untold Story. Intergenerational Trauma And Black Women

The Untold Story, is an autoethnographic portfolio comprised of an exhibit, a filmed performance, a photobook and an essay. In these works, I employ family narratives, art making, analysis of secondary resources and community building to address the impact of intergenerational trauma on Black women’s mental health.There have not been enough studies on mental health among Black women and many Black women do not recognize the signs, thus never report the symptoms to their doctor as they uphold the enduring position of a strong Black woman. In response to these issues, the art making spaces that I create address the stigma of mental illness in the Black community and how race is not included in the mental health conversation. My research creates community and creative agency of Black women’s mental health and opens conversations surrounding the stigma related to Black women and mental illness. My work highlights the history of Black women and resilience; the effects of trauma on Black women including Black trans women; and the importance of addressing and healing from trauma within spaces specifically for Black women, both cis and trans. In this essay, I address the underrepresented history of Black women in North America, starting with the history of enslavement. The creation of art-making spaces as a framework for my autoethnographic methodology enables me to delve into my family history of women in my family principally through storytelling and lived experiences

The Evolution and Ownership of the Concept of the African-American Woman as “The Mule of the World”

This thesis explores the motif of the African-American woman as the “mule of the world.” The negative connotations of the term originate in slavery and have been influenced by the “cult of true womanhood.” The term itself interrelates to the triple marginalization—that of race, sex, and class—that African American women face. However, black female authors have taken this derogatory meaning and have subsequently given it a positive meaning through the act of Signification, as theorized by Henry Louis Gates. Like their black male predecessors, Maya Angelou (in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings) and Zora Neale Hurston (in Their Eyes Were Watching God) break free from the restrictions of language and create a new meaning