Mariluz Franco-Ortiz

• University of Puerto Rico at Cayey

Colectivo Ilé is an antiracist and decolonial organization led by African descent and Black women in Puerto Rico that seeks to eradicate racism, colonialism, sexism, heterosexism/heteronormative practices, and other connected forms of oppression through education, organizing, research, the promotion of cultural healing practices/processes, and lead...

Attrition rates in the first two years of graduate school are high and ∼50% higher for underrepresented students. Here we evaluate an online group coaching intervention using a controlled and an experimental group to determine its impact on skills that are likely predictors of student success, namely the Hallmark of Success indices developed by the...

In this article the authors propose the use of a six-gradient skin color scale as an alternative to discern people's vulnerability to racial discrimination, pointing out its advantages vis á vis the methodological challenges posed by the standardized question of "race" used in population censuses and related demographic instruments. After conductin...

The Colectivo Universtiario para el Acceso (CUA) of the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey (UPR-Cayey) has undertaken four research projects to approach the problem of access and retention of students from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds. The purpose of this paper is to share data and reflections generated by the project Undergraduate Educa...

Broader diversity in the research workforce affords the inclusion of research agendas, methods, and perspectives that might otherwise be overlooked to address key social and scientific problems. However, promoting diversity in science is not a trivial matter. It entails mitigating some of the long-term social and institutional inequalities that hav...

Se presentan los resultados de la evaluación de un programa piloto de adiestramiento antirracista para facultad implementado en dos escuelas elementales en Puerto Rico. El programa representa un esfuerzo pionero para sistematizar y evaluar la intervención cuyo objetivo fue explorar si hubo cambios en los conocimientos de las participantes en torno...

This article presents and discusses strategies implemented by the University of Puerto Rico Center for Hispanic Youth Violence Prevention (CHYVP) to facilitate community mobilization to reduce youth violence in a high-risk Latino community. Participatory communication strategies were used to enhance mobilization and to develop community partnership...

On the basis of ethnographic research conducted in an elementary public school in Puerto Rico, we maintain in this article that subduing and narrowing the history of slavery is instrumental in the reproduction of national ideologies of mestizaje in Afro-Latin America. We explore how school texts and practices silence, trivialize, and simplify the h...