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Specifically, we analyze ethnographically-generated data from Gildersleeve’s (2015; 2016) study of Latino graduation ceremonies, emplacing our analyses within new materialist philosophy. We theorize the Latino graduation ceremony as assemblage (DeLanda, 2006) and produce new sensibilities about the significance of Latino/a youth activism in contemporary U.S. higher education. The purposes of this paper are two-fold. First, we hope to contribute to the knowledge-base around how Latino/a youth use/claim space in their efforts for social change. Second, we hope to contribute to the growing literature in education that draws from new materialist philosophy and develops new methods/analyses to help reveal youth experiences.  \nKeywords: Latino/ayouth activism; higher education; new materialism; assemblage theory; ritual culture  \nAnalyzing rituals enhances awareness of cultural realities and the power of the values and beliefs that shape social institutions and the lived experiences ofthe people affected by them (Magolda, 2016). As Latino/a participation in higher education historically has been marked by controversial policy, achievement, and opportunity outcomes, the production of celebratory rituals is indeed significant for understanding higher education’s past, present, and imagined future. Latino graduation ceremonies exist alongside traditional institutional rituals of commencement. Of particular relevance here is the particularly subaltern status of the ritual. There is an inherently oppositional politic in their practice, yet they also perpetuate the neoliberal condition systemic to American higher education today (Gildersleeve, 2015) . Understanding that politic and the new realities it creates when intra-secting with youth activism can provide a more nuanced and complex understanding of how Latino/a youth activism reconfigures space(s) within dominant institutions (i.e., higher education) today. Hence, we ask the question,“How might Latino/a youth activism materialize through ritual culture in higher education?”  \nThe purposes of this paper are two-fold. First, we hope to contribute to the knowledge-base around how Latino/a youth use/claim space in their efforts for social change. Second, we hope to contribute to the growing literature in education that draws from new materialist philosophy and develops new methods/analyses to help reveal youth experiences. In this paper, we entangle Latino/a youth activism with ritual culture in U.S. higher education. Specifically, we analyze ethno-  \ngraphically-generated data from Gildersleeve’s (2015; 2016) study of Latino graduation ceremonies, emplacing our analyses within new materialist philosophy. We theorize the Latino graduation ceremony as assemblage (DeLanda, 2006) and produce new sensibilities about the significance of Latino/a youth activism in contemporary U.S. higher education.  \nAs our paper is multi-purposed and drawing explicitly from posthumanist ontologies (i.e., new materialism and assemblage theory), we depart significantly from the canonical organization of the traditional research report. Rather, we take up Coole and Frost’s (2010) conclusion for the future development of materialist entanglements:  \n…new materialist ontologies demand a rethinking of, and renewed attention to, the dynamics of materialization…such a project demands, as a corollary, a radical reappraisal of the contours ofthe subject, a reassessment of the possibility and texture of ethics, an examination of new domains of power and unfamiliar frames for imagining justice, and an exploration of the sources, quality, and dimensions of agency. (p. 37)  \nWe follow Coole and Frost’s (2010) call","cbCaisVzRsPhLgKQ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaisVzRsPhLgKQ","pdf",586366,16,"English","# Introduction\n## Research focus and purpose\n## Ritual analysis and political significance\n# Theoretical framework\n## New materialism and assemblage theory\n## Materialization and subjectivity\n# Context: Latinos in U.S. Higher Education\n## Policy, access, and success\n## Federal legislation and programs","[{\"question\":\"What central research question does the paper pose?\",\"answer\":\"How might Latino/a youth activism materialize through ritual culture in higher education?\"},{\"question\":\"What theoretical lens is used to analyze the Latino graduation ceremony?\",\"answer\":\"The paper uses new materialist philosophy, theorizing the ceremony as an assemblage.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the paper describe the purpose of the research?\",\"answer\":\"It aims to explain how Latino/a youth use or claim space for social change and to advance education scholarship grounded in new materialist approaches.\"}]","Latino/a Youth Activism in Higher Education - A New Materialist Analysis of the Latino Graduation Ceremony | PDF",1792089546]