Race and Rurality

<p>This book offers context research policy and practice-based recommendations centering college access and success for a historically overlooked population: rural Students and Communities of Color.</p><p>Through an exploration of how colleges and universities can effectively welcome students from rural areas who identify as Asian and Pacific Islander Black and African American Hispanic and Latinx and/or Indigenous this text challenges the misleading narrative that <i>rural is white</i> thereby placing these students and their communities in conversation with national higher education discourse. Rich contributions on scholarship practice and policy address the intersection of racism and spatial inequities and consider the unique opportunities and challenges that rural Students and Communities of Color face across the United States’ higher education landscape. Chapters provide direction on creating equitable policies and practices as well as details of the assets resources and networks that support this population’s success.</p><p>This edited collection provides a wealth of insight into the recruitment access persistence and retention of rural Students of Color equipping higher education researchers practitioners administrators and policymakers with the knowledge they need to better account for and support rural students and communities across race and ethnicity.</p>