Chrystal A. George Mwangi is Associate Professor of Higher Education at George Mason University. Yedalis Ruíz Santana is Chief Access and Equity Officer/Executive Director of the Tania M. Barber Learning Institute at Caring Health Center and Faculty Affiliate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

• ForewordJudy Marquez KiyamaAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChrystal A. George Mwangi and Yedalis Ruíz Santana1. A POC-Centered (Re)Framing of College Access and ChoiceChrystal A. George Mwangi and Yedalis Ruíz SantanaPart I: Youth-Centered Framings2. Critically Conscious College Knowledge: Critiquing Notions of College Readiness through an Ethnic Studies LensJoel A. Arce and Ashley Carpenter3. Intergenerational Posttraumatic Transformation: Reframing College Access for Students from Refugee BackgroundsDiep H. Luu4. "Removing la cascara": The Cost of Being Resilient among Puertorriquena College AspirantsYedalis Ruíz SantanaPart II: Community-Grown Framings5. When Impossible Becomes Possible! A Critical Access Model That Centers Equity in Community HealthTania M. Barber6. Widening Postsecondary Educational Pathways for Black and Latinx Boys and Young Men: Personal Reflections, Professional Experiences, and Research-Based InsightsRoderick L. Carey7. Breaking the Chains of Intergenerational Poverty and Becoming a First-Generation WarriorAnastasia (Stasia) Morton8. "By Us, for Us": A Student Bridges Approach to Access and Retention among Historically Underrepresented PopulationsOlga M. Correa and Kelsey RuizPart III: Culture- and Family-Oriented Framings9. College Choice as Conocimiento: Disentangling the Reflective and Cyclical Postsecondary Pathways of Latina/o/x StudentsNancy Acevedo10. Family Building: College Choice Process for Native American StudentsEliza Yellow Bird, Amanda R. Tachine, and Nolan L. Cabrera11. Under the Baobab Tree: Developing a Family-Centered Framework for College Choice with Black African Immigrant FamiliesChrystal A. George MwangiConclusionYedalis Ruíz Santana and Chrystal A. George MwangiContributorsIndex

"The editors and authors of this much-needed book reframe issues of postsecondary education access and opportunity with students of color in mind. In pushing the fields of higher education and counseling education to adopt asset-based, critical approaches, it promises to make an important contribution to both the scholarly literature and our collective practices." — Darris R. Means, coeditor of Race and Rurality: Considerations for Advancing Higher Education Equity