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For decades, academic researchers have reported on the lack of educational success of men of color in higher education. Many fixate on their lack of academic progress rather than attempting to understand how to adequately serve their needs. In response to the lack of asset based, solution driving research, many academics adopted the issue of young men of color as their educational platform. Yet, in their attempt to accentuate and position young men of color as competent and able individuals, the majority of researchers have overlooked AfroLatino males. In fact, AfroLatina/os as a whole remain largely invisible in higher education research since the majority of researchers adhere to monoracial and homogenous perspectives of race and ethnicity. Thus, this study highlights the lived experiences of six self-identified AfroLatino males in higher education by centering their experiences as racialized men on campus. Findings illustrate how AfroLatino males are forced to navigate a campus climate that does not acknowledge their physical presence (as AfroLatino males) or their academic needs. Further, they reported being forced to negotiate strict racial and ethnic categories in addition to language in order to gain peer acceptance on campus.

What is the state's responsibility to its people in the aftermath of a natural hazard based disaster? The book sets out to address this seemingly simple question, after large scale floods devastated Pakistan in 2010 and then again in 2011. Along the way it delves into rich detail about people's everday encounters with the state in Pakistan, uncovers postcolonial discourses on rights of citizenship and dispels mainstream understanding of Islamist groups as presenting an alternative development paradigm to the state. Based on detailed ethnographic fieldwork, In the Wake of the Disaster forces the reader to look beyond narratives of Pakistan as the perennial 'failing state' falling victim to an imminent 'Islamist takeover'. The book shifts the conversation from hysteria and sensationalism surrounding Pakistan to the everyday. In doing so it transforms our understanding of contemporary disasters.

Europeanization is a two-way process that involves the evolution of European institutions that impact on political structures & processes of the member states. This article develops an approach to link conceptually the two dimensions of Europeanization by focusing on the ways in which member state governments both shape European policy outcomes & adapt to them. Member states have an incentive to "upload" their policies to the European level to minimize the costs in "downloading" them at the domestic level. But they differ in both their policy preferences & their action capacities. Accordingly, member states have pursued different strategies in responding to Europeanization. The article draws on evidence from the field of EU environmental policy making to illustrate when member states are likely to engage in pace-setting, foot-dragging, or fence-sitting. It concludes with some considerations on whether pace-setting, foot-dragging, & fence-sitting give rise to interest coalitions that pit member states of diverse levels of economic development against each other. 1 Figure, 56 References. Adapted from the source document.