Papers by Anthony Carrasco
Journal of Children and Poverty, 2019
We know relatively little about homeless youth of color. Despite
comprising almost three-quarters... more We know relatively little about homeless youth of color. Despite
comprising almost three-quarters of the homeless youth
population in the United States, youth of color, along with their
unique needs, experiences, and wellbeing, have seldom been the
subject of sustained and critical empirical inquiry. For example, in
the context of education, the ways in which grade point averages,
frequency of school change, and graduation rates may differ
between homeless youth in general and homeless youth of color
remain unknown. Even if we were to take the liberty of extending
the existing comparative research regarding general student
performance, the best we can surmise is that homeless youth of
color fare worse according to all of these traditional success
standards, but we haven’t the faintest idea how much worse or
why. When it comes to vital questions about the wellbeing of
some of the most vulnerable children in America, we are, at worst,
asleep at the wheel and, at best, stumbling in the dark. On its
surface, the “racial knowledge gap” appears to be a yawning
expanse of missing information enveloped by a hazy mist of
imprecise data interpretation, the meaning and significance of
which I expound upon in this brief.
Drafts by Anthony Carrasco
The Ronald E. McNair Symposium Journal , 2018
Despite the near-constant growth of homelessness among youth of families, almost three-quarters o... more Despite the near-constant growth of homelessness among youth of families, almost three-quarters of which are Youth and Families of Color, scholars have only twice employed a Critical Race Theory (CRT) of education to analyze the experiences of Homeless Students of Color. Using a CRT framework and qualitative data, this study is the first to use racial microaggressions as tool to understand the scholastic struggles of Homeless Students of Color in elementary, middle, and high school. This phenomenological study draws from 12 semi-structured in-depth interviews with Black and Latina/o homeless students between the ages of 12 and 18 living in Orange County, California. Results show how race and homelessness generates unique forms of academic disempowerment for Homeless Youth of Color. Findings support the use of a race-conscious approach to address educational inequalities.
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Papers by Anthony Carrasco
comprising almost three-quarters of the homeless youth
population in the United States, youth of color, along with their
unique needs, experiences, and wellbeing, have seldom been the
subject of sustained and critical empirical inquiry. For example, in
the context of education, the ways in which grade point averages,
frequency of school change, and graduation rates may differ
between homeless youth in general and homeless youth of color
remain unknown. Even if we were to take the liberty of extending
the existing comparative research regarding general student
performance, the best we can surmise is that homeless youth of
color fare worse according to all of these traditional success
standards, but we haven’t the faintest idea how much worse or
why. When it comes to vital questions about the wellbeing of
some of the most vulnerable children in America, we are, at worst,
asleep at the wheel and, at best, stumbling in the dark. On its
surface, the “racial knowledge gap” appears to be a yawning
expanse of missing information enveloped by a hazy mist of
imprecise data interpretation, the meaning and significance of
which I expound upon in this brief.
Drafts by Anthony Carrasco
comprising almost three-quarters of the homeless youth
population in the United States, youth of color, along with their
unique needs, experiences, and wellbeing, have seldom been the
subject of sustained and critical empirical inquiry. For example, in
the context of education, the ways in which grade point averages,
frequency of school change, and graduation rates may differ
between homeless youth in general and homeless youth of color
remain unknown. Even if we were to take the liberty of extending
the existing comparative research regarding general student
performance, the best we can surmise is that homeless youth of
color fare worse according to all of these traditional success
standards, but we haven’t the faintest idea how much worse or
why. When it comes to vital questions about the wellbeing of
some of the most vulnerable children in America, we are, at worst,
asleep at the wheel and, at best, stumbling in the dark. On its
surface, the “racial knowledge gap” appears to be a yawning
expanse of missing information enveloped by a hazy mist of
imprecise data interpretation, the meaning and significance of
which I expound upon in this brief.