Clearing the Path for First-Generation College Students : Qualitative and Intersectional Studies of Educational Mobility.

Clearing The Path For First-Generation College Students -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Clearing the Path: Situating First-Generation Students' Experiences in Qualitative, Intersectional Scholarship -- 1 "Cautionary Tales": Low-Income First-Generation College Students, Educational Mobility, and Familial Meaning-Making Processes -- 2 Interdependent Relationships and Family Responsibilities: How Socioeconomic Status and Immigrant Histories Shape Second-Generation Asian American Experiences -- 3 Out With the Old, In With the New? Habitus and Social Mobility at Selective Colleges -- 4 Moving Between Classes: Loyalists, Renegades, and Double Agents -- 5 Seeking Out Support: Looking Beyond Socioeconomic Status to Explain Academic Engagement Strategies at an Elite College -- 6 Rethinking First-Generation College Status among Undocumented Immigrant Students -- 7 First-Generation Students and Their Families: Examining Institutional Responsibility during College Access and Transition -- 8 Choosing Majors, Choosing Careers: How Gender and Class Shape Students' Selection of Fields -- 9 Demystifying Influences on Persistence for Native American First-Generation College Students -- 10 Science Posse: The Importance of the Cohort in Normalizing Academic Challenge -- 11 Toward a Local Student Success Model: Latino First-Generation College Student Persistence -- Afterword -- Index -- About the Contributors.

This collection explores social processes and meanings germane to the educational mobility of first-generation college students before and during their matriculation into higher education. The contributing scholars examine dynamics, policies, practices, and programs that inform college access and persistence for first generation students.

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