Ethnographic Paper Proposal
Research Question
How do racism and discrimination affect the school life of one Hispanic college student in the U.S.?
Interview Protocol
1. How is it like to encounter discrimination and racism in the school?
2. What messages do you get from your peers concerning your ancestry? Who are the students who say them?
3. What responses do you give whenever your experience discrimination?
4. How is your stay in the U.S., and have you adjusted to living with social profiling?
5. What does the school say about discrimination?
6. What legal or disciplinary obligations does the school enforce to curb the problem?
7. What evidence does the school seek and examine when conducting investigations or disciplinary obligations?
8. What disciplinary records and policies are students supposed to maintain?
9. How are the social lives of other affected students?
10. How should racism and discrimination be remedied in colleges and universities?
References
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Cheng, H. L., & Mallinckrodt, B. (2015). Racial/ethnic discrimination, posttraumatic stress symptoms, and alcohol problems in a longitudinal study of Hispanic/Latino college students. Journal of counseling psychology, 62(1), 38.
Cheng, H. L., McDermott, R. C., Wong, Y. J., & McCullough, K. M. (2020). Perceived discrimination and academic distress among Latinx college students: A cross-lagged longitudinal investigation. Journal of counseling psychology, 67(3), 401.
Kanter, J. W., Williams, M. T., Kuczynski, A. M., Manbeck, K. E., Debreaux, M., & Rosen, D. C. (2017). A preliminary report on the relationship between microaggressions against Black people and racism among White college students. Race and Social Problems, 9(4), 291-299.
Szymanski, D. M., & Lewis, J. A. (2016). Gendered racism, coping, identity centrality, and African American college women’s psychological distress. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 40(2), 229-243.
