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"""A compassionate and detailed exploration of how young adult children of Latin American immigrants navigate a privileged college environment. Leah Schmalzbauer follows the stories of a new generation of young adults who attend a top liberal arts college, seeking an education in elite spaces while balancing family obligations and the stress of the COVID pandemic. Highly informative and deeply moving, Meanings of Mobility sheds light on how higher education works for a select group, and what needs to change to provide such access to others."" --JOANNA DREBY, professor of sociology, University at Albany ""In Meanings of Mobility, Leah Schmalzbauer carefully and in precise detail documents the costs--psychic and embodied--of children of immigrants' class mobility through elite educational pathways. Driven by love and a desire to make good on parents' sacrifices, poor and working-class students of color understand that academic excellence only leads to financial success when they can proficiently enact the cultural norms of privileged whiteness. Readers get to witness through these students' own accounts how they make sense of the tough choices an elite college education presents: the spectrum runs from returning to community to contribute to social justice to leaning into racial capitalism to acquire wealth."" --LEISY J. ABREGO, professor and chair, Chicana/o and Central American Studies, UCLA ""With penetrating prose, Leah Schmalzbauer provides an intimate portrait of how poverty shapes undergraduate life at even the wealthiest institutions of higher education. Moreover, she forces us to grapple with the simple yet overlooked fact that students do not come to college alone; families come to college. Through revealing interviews with students and their families, Meanings of Mobility outlines the pitfalls and promises of pursuing higher education for the most vulnerable members of society. And with care and attention born of a dedicated scholar, Schmalzbauer provides insights into what can be done to make our institutions not just accessible, but inclusive."" --ANTHONY A. JACK, assistant professor of education, Harvard University"

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Leah Schmalzbauer is Karen and Brian Conway '80, P'18 Presidential Teaching Professor of American Studies and Sociology at Amherst College.

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