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Graduation ceremonies are treated as spaces that produce and mirror how Latino students become subjects and socialities. Using Latino graduation as the backdrop, the ritual’s practice is read as parrhesia in the process of becoming a graduate. 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Ritual culture in higher education such as graduation ceremony produces and reflects the realities of becoming subjects. These spaces are proliferating grounds for truth telling and practical wisdom. Using Latino graduation ceremonies as a backdrop, the ritual transforms the Latino college student into the Latino college graduate via the ritual practice of the Latino graduation ceremony represents parrhesia in the actual process. The cartography of truth-telling illustrates how critical methodology and methodologist can engage in parrhesia.  \nKeywords: Anthropocene, Latino higher education, ritual culture, parrhesia  \nIn this essay, I seek to trace a cartography of truth-telling and practical wisdom through a posthumanist entanglement of ritual culture in higher education and critical inquiry. Every spring, thousands of Latinos gather with family and friends in celebration of educational achievements that are simultaneously normative and exceptional, mainstream and subaltern, positive and negative. These extreme dichotomies are insufficient to describe the intra-sections of each upon another. As such, I intend to describe some of the variable axes through which assemblages of Latino college graduates emerge.  \nThe emplacement of Latinos in American higher education is significant to excavate as Latino families face historic discrimination along racialized, colonized, economic, and ethnic lines of flight. Erstwhile, American higher education has been propagated by design as an answer to inequality—the great equalizer and the confirmer of individual uplift for the meritorious. Yet, as social institutions, colleges and universities are as likely to reproduce the very inequality and inequity that its subjects might seek to mitigate. Ritual culture, such as a graduation ceremony, reflects and produces the realities of becoming-subjects and becoming-socialities. As will be illustrated, such spaces can be ripe and ravenous grounds for truth telling and practical wisdom as they engage the onto-epistemological work of posthumanist critical inquiry.  \n1. Part of the research reported in this article was made possible with support from the Spencer Foundation for Education. Spencer Foundation Grant \\#201300010.  \n102 Gildersleeve—Truth-Telling, Ritual Culture, & Latino Graduate Students  \nPractical Location Coordinates I: Division I Sports Arena on a Public University Campus in California during Commencement Weekend  \nClose to 200 graduates enter the arena. They are accompanied by almost 400 parents or grandparents who escort them from one end of the floor to the other, then students are ushered into their seats as madresy padres y abuelasy abuelos find their way back to family and friends in the stands. Parents and grandparents move across and betwixt the two worlds of college graduation and la familia today. They march to Edward Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance alongside their children. Their children’s march represents the traditional transitory state between student and graduate. Los Padres’ march represents the connection between sacrifice, struggle, achievement, and opportunity. Aztec dancers take to the floor of the arena, drumming and dancing ancestral performances of celebration. Latino graduation ceremony has begun, and la familia is at its center, even as they circumscribe the graduates in the arena.  \nPractical Location Coordinates II: Public Green Space on a California Community College Campus during Commencement Weekend  \nAbout 70 or so family members and friends sit sporadically around an outdoor amphitheater as 40 or so graduates line-up along the perimeter of the green space marking the amphitheater’s cen","cbCaiahgERs2jXik","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiahgERs2jXik","pdf",616019,15,"English","# Abstract\n# Practical Location Coordinates I: Division I Sports Arena on a Public University Campus in California during Commencement Weekend\n# Practical Location Coordinates II: Public Green Space on a California Community College Campus during Commencement Weekend","[{\"question\":\"What is the article’s central aim regarding graduation ceremonies?\",\"answer\":\"It traces a cartography of truth-telling and practical wisdom through how ritual culture in higher education shapes processes of becoming subjects and becoming socialities.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the author use Latino graduation ceremonies to explain parrhesia?\",\"answer\":\"The ritual practice is presented as transforming the Latino college student into the Latino college graduate, representing parrhesia within the actual process.\"},{\"question\":\"How are the ceremonies structured across the two described settings?\",\"answer\":\"The sports arena setting describes the movement of graduates and families and highlights performative celebration, while the community college setting outlines an outdoor processional with roles, speeches, bilingual delivery, and name-reading as graduates walk the stage.\"}]","Truth-Telling, Ritual Culture, and Latino College - Graduates in the Anthropocene 1 | PDF",1792089475,38]