University of Vermont ScholarWorks @ UVM Graduate College Dissertations and Theses Dissertations and Theses 2015 Tejanos in College: How Texas Born Mexican- American Students Navigate Ethnoracial Identity Tomás Sanchez University of Vermont Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis Part of the Higher Education Commons, Higher Education Administration Commons, and the Latin American Studies Commons Recommended Citation Sanchez, Tomás, "Tejanos in College: How Texas Born Mexican-American Students Navigate Ethnoracial Identity" (2015). Graduate College Dissertations and Theses. 344. https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/344 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Dissertations and Theses at ScholarWorks @ UVM. It has been accepted for inclusion in Graduate College Dissertations and Theses by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks @ UVM. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. TEJANOS IN COLLEGE: HOW TEXAS BORN MEXICAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS NAVIGATE ETHNORACIAL IDENTITY A Dissertation Presented by Tomás Sanchez Jr. to The Faculty of the Graduate College of The University of Vermont In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Education Specializing in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies May, 2015 Defense Date: March 26, 2015 Dissertation Examination Committee: Jill Tarule, Ed. D., Advisor Thomas Macias, Ph.D., Chairperson Kathleen Manning, Ph.D. Cynthia Reyes, Ph.D. Cynthia J. Forehand, Ph.D., Dean of the Graduate College ABSTRACT For Latin@s in the United States, navigating the spectrum of racial and ethnic identities can be complicated. This same complication has the potential to affect one of the largest groups of Latin@s in the nation: Mexican-Americans living in Texas or Tejanos.