Getting college ready : Latin student experiences of race. Mi voz, mi vida : Latino college students tell their life stories. Format Book Published Ithaca : Cornell University. Garrod, Andrew Kilkenny, Robert Gomez, Christina. Mi voz, mi vida : Latino college students tell their life stories / edited by Andrew Garrod, Robert Kilkenny, and Christina Gómez. This book gives educators, students, and their families a clear view of the experience of Latino students adapting to a challenging educational environment and a cultural context?Dartmouth College?often very different from their childhood ones. Mi Voz, Mi Vida: Latino College Students Tell Their Life Stories. Throughout, they provide insights into issues of racial identity in contemporary America among a minority population that is very much in the news. Their engaging stories detail the students' personal struggles with issues such as identity and biculturalism, family dynamics, religion, poverty, stereotypes, and the value of education. Their insights are both balanced and frank, blending personal, anecdotal, political, and cultural viewpoints. The fifteen Latino college students who tell their stories in this book come from a variety of socioeconomic, regional, and family backgrounds?they are young men and women of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, Central American, and South American descent. Amid the flurry of debates about immigration, poverty, and education in the United States, the stories in Mi Voz, Mi Vida allow us to reflect on how young people who might be most affected by the results of these debates actually navigate through American society.

Mi Voz, Mi Vida by Andrew Garrod