%0 Journal Article
%T ¡°There She Is¡±: Hispanic Identity, Academic Success, and Class Mobility in a Collegiate Beauty Pageant
%A Taylor Renee Smith
%J Journal of Hispanic Higher Education
%@ 1552-5716
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1538192716635704
%X Widely accepted definitions of academic success are neither adequate nor meaningful for many ethnic minority students. Using ethnographic research with high-achieving Latina college students in Oklahoma, student experiences in a collegiate Hispanic beauty pageant were analyzed. These successful Latina students negotiated academic achievement through pageant performances of gender and ethnicity. Student understandings of ¡°making it,¡± shaped by familial approval, adherence to gender norms, and ethnic identity, suggest that a rethinking of ¡°academic success¡± is necessary
%K achievement
%K gender
%K higher education
%K Latina(o)
%K ethnicity
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1538192716635704