Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2022

Journal / Book Title

AERA Open

Abstract

Conceptualizations of servingness must include an understanding of how racial ideologies shape Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs). Three Latinx scholars offer testimonios on our experiences as students, faculty, and researchers at teaching and research-intensive HSIs. From our testimonios, we found that practices of Blanqueamiento (Whitening of a population) and Mestizaje (racial mixture) operate at HSIs to flatten our understanding of Hispanics in U.S. society. To make sense of our testimonios within these HSI contexts and constraints, we applied an intersectional consciousness perspective on racialized organizations. Findings include Whiteness operating as a credential, legitimizing unequal resources, diminishing agency among minoritized groups, and continued use of Mestizaje (disguised as Hispanic) as a prevailing ideology. We provide considerations for HSI leaders, researchers, and administrators to elevate their intersectional consciousness and disrupt how HSIs contribute to essentialist notions of Latinxs.

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This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License

DOI

10.1177/23328584221095074

Journal ISSN / Book ISBN

113427579 (Orcid)

Published Citation

Vega, B. E., Liera, R., & Boveda, M. (2022). Hispanic-Serving Institutions as Racialized Organizations: Elevating Intersectional Consciousness to Reframe the “H” in HSIs. AERA Open, 8. https://doi.org/10.1177/23328584221095074

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